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authorcperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>2013-09-10 21:16:18 +0000
committercperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>2013-09-10 21:16:18 +0000
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Remove documentation describing functionality which geom(4) does not,
in fact, provide. Reviewed by: phk MFC after: 3 days Approved by: re (gjb)
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/geom.420
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/geom.4 b/share/man/man4/geom.4
index 4606676..3cfc283 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/geom.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/geom.4
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 14, 2013
+.Dd September 10, 2013
.Dt GEOM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -354,24 +354,6 @@ only be done with their cooperation.
Finally: the spoiling only happens when the write count goes from
zero to non-zero and the retasting happens only when the write count goes
from non-zero to zero.
-.It Em INSERT/DELETE
-are very special operations which allow a new geom
-to be instantiated between a consumer and a provider attached to
-each other and to remove it again.
-.Pp
-To understand the utility of this, imagine a provider
-being mounted as a file system.
-Between the DEVFS geom's consumer and its provider we insert
-a mirror module which configures itself with one mirror
-copy and consequently is transparent to the I/O requests
-on the path.
-We can now configure yet a mirror copy on the mirror geom,
-request a synchronization, and finally drop the first mirror
-copy.
-We have now, in essence, moved a mounted file system from one
-disk to another while it was being used.
-At this point the mirror geom can be deleted from the path
-again; it has served its purpose.
.It Em CONFIGURE
is the process where the administrator issues instructions
for a particular class to instantiate itself.
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