cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050407222505.GA29827 at VARK.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes:

>> I really think sysinstall should exit with an error message
>> when people try to use it for things it cannot do.
>> 
>> I do _not_ think we should cripple the rest of the system to cater
>> for sysinstall.
>
>I realize that sysinstall isn't directly relevant to you and I,
>but it's important to just about everyone who installs FreeBSD for
>the first time, and this is group we don't want to piss off.

Cool, no problem then!

I'm sure that if it is important some developers will jump in and
make it better.

>For the author of GEOM, the breakage should be easy to fix.  Why
>not just fix it in the same way that you fixed fdisk over two
>years ago?

Because I am approaching one commit every 8 hours of the last
calendar year, and I have quite frankly enough to do as it is.

Sysinstall, fdisk, bsdlabel and boot0cfg are all userland programs
which should be well inside the envelope of pretty much anybody
who has completed K&R the first time if they want to put a bit
of work into it, it doesn't have to be somebody of my caliber.

And it would be great training for the next generation of kernel
wizard candidates.

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