Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:15:12 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c Message-ID: <44707.1078953312@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:09:05 EST." <200403102109.i2AL96dn073169@green.homeunix.org>
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In message <200403102109.i2AL96dn073169@green.homeunix.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" writes: >Could you please implement an errx(3) for MD_ASYNC without MD_FORCE, or >something of that ilk? Users who use anything other than mdconfig(8) for >leanring how to use mdconfig(8) could quite easily run across something like: > "Make sure to use -o async to get better performance." >and shoot themselves in the foot, whereas if they saw: > "Make sure to use -o force -o async..." mdconfig(8) is plenty dangerous as it is, obfuscating the arguments is not an improvement for the marginal extra protection. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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