geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 13 05:10:06 PST 2009


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> geom(4) says:
> 
>    A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation
>    should self-destruct...
> 
> Now I wonder:
> does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created
> by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or
> this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ?

I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, but when a new geom is
created (for example by a complex / transformation GEOM class...), it is
automatically tested again, so why would it be different now?

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