Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 14:36:58 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags Message-ID: <CACqU3MUT36PVxP2hMuizTxYLcuTkBQ_fOfrELit=7ueq-hvOxg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wQx3NDMd9HY0HKizjOPg2k%2BgQ=bjCaCVmMn1FMQod-ViA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w@mail.gmail.com> <52963.1318092760@critter.freebsd.dk> <CACqU3MWregi9uz9GK5RMic0jxbz6oRj7YwUHnpArdyATWKrxDg@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wQx3NDMd9HY0HKizjOPg2k%2BgQ=bjCaCVmMn1FMQod-ViA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrot= e: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> = wrote: >>> In message <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w@mail.gm= ail.com> >>> , Arnaud Lacombe writes: >>> >>>>User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a >>>>hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security >>>>issue here... >>> >>> There is a big difference between having an emergency hatch that >>> gives you a chance to escape certain death by running across a >>> shooting range, and on posting a sign telling people to use it as >>> a short-cut. >>> >> I will certainly never ask you to draw blueprints for a shooting >> range. There is NO legitimacy whatsoever for an emergency hatch to >> pass though the firing line. > > =A0 =A0Certain groups do use this emergency hatch in production to get > past safeguards and purposely zero out disks. Granted, it's an > ill-advised procedure for most end-users. > Then it is not an "emergency" hatch. Using an "emergency" hatch in non emergency, or emergency-drill, situation is in most case strictly forbidden. It would rather be a service hatch. In which case, that part of geom is just badly designed. - Arnaud
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