From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 29 11:14:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A2937B402; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0TJChF04687; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101291912.f0TJChF04687@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: mjacob@feral.com, sos@FreeBSD.org ([?X-UNKNOWN?]), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:06:26 +0100." <200101291806.TAA56399@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:12:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > > = > > Can we have this as a command line settable option (e.g., a hint)? > = > Later, I need to figure out if I can turn this into a sysctl, but it > depends on all drives accepting the write strategy to be changed > on the fly... So for now this is an option... Er, it should be a tunable with a default (if it's system-wide), or it = should be a hint. Stuff like this should *never* be an option. -- = =2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message