From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 6 19:34:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from niwun.pair.com (niwun.pair.com [209.68.2.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C40E37B41A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16758 invoked by uid 3193); 7 Dec 2001 03:34:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 03:34:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:34:49 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Silbersack X-Sender: To: Robert Watson Cc: Matthew Dillon , Chad David , Luigi Rizzo , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > "FreeBSD 4.3 flirted with turning off IDE write caching" doesn't necessary > come across more clearly than "In FreeBSD 4.3, we experimented with > disabling IDE write caching by default." Optionally adding "to address > legitimate concerns with data integrity". It's still written in an > informal tone (use of "we", et al) but it may be more clear. It not only > makes us look more professional, but it also makes it seems like we don't > consider our system a joke: we didn't flirt, we weighed the choices, > decided on something, and later changed our minds based on available > evidence and user needs. Yeesh, we're getting quite uptight here. Matt's word choice was, well, Matt's word choice because he wrote the page. While some of it may be funny, none of it is offensive. Let's quit the nitpicking and leave it alone unless there are technical details to be changed. I'm sure the rest of us have better things to do. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message