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To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags
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In message <CACqU3MVgVUxe+Mtaf9wq6oz5=PZAq=Sx-ihyQh1GyjD3PXmjhQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Arnaud Lacombe writes:

>If you expose a setting, you cannot rely on a user not to use it even
>if you told him not to. As long as this is exposed and usable, it will
>be used, even more when it was documented.

This is clearly marked as a debug tool, the only bug here, is that people
tell users to abuse it in the documentation.

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