From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 16:39:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3089237B401; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C8043FAF; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A2887526A3; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:09:32 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:09:32 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tom Rhodes Message-ID: <20030813233932.GA23460@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200308122008.h7CK8F9D074923@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030813054823.GP23460@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030813084125.GA408@FreeBSD.org> <20030813100234.778637ae.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vUOrpVjU9N5sOsWB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030813100234.778637ae.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: docs/55122: Handbook should mention that gdbe can't be used with vinum volumes X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:39:40 -0000 --vUOrpVjU9N5sOsWB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 13 August 2003 at 10:02:34 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:41:27 +0200 > "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: > >> On 2003.08.13 15:18:23 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 13:08:15 -0700, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >>>> Synopsis: Handbook should mention that gdbe can't be used with vinum volumes >>>> >>>> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->simon >>>> Responsible-Changed-By: simon >>>> Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 12 13:07:47 PDT 2003 >>>> Responsible-Changed-Why: >>>> I will handle this one. >>> >>> Please close the PR. We don't document -CURRENT; we document -STABLE. >>> Until things have finished developing, there's no way to know what can >>> be used with what. >> >> Actually we document both the latest 5.X and 4.X releases in the >> handbook, otherwise there would be no mention of 5.X only features like >> gbde. > > Greg has a valid point; however, because it could 'just not be complete'. > > A simple note "As of this writing, gdbe cannot work with Vinum volumes." > I can see how making the note would definatly be documenting for 5.X, > but it should not be some huge paragraph. My concern is that this would require another modification, another PR. If we did this for every transient incompatibility in -CURRENT, we wouldn't have time for anything else. It shouldn't be put in the documentation. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --vUOrpVjU9N5sOsWB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Osw0IubykFB6QiMRAk/fAKCu0Rq2/oOuru1Deh5z6wtN08NAAwCfRaD6 /QvnHdb5qI1EzSP4nykYlvY= =2hUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vUOrpVjU9N5sOsWB--