Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:44:51 +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: <44985.1078955091@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:38:55 EST." <200403102138.i2ALcuYj073417@green.homeunix.org>
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In message <200403102138.i2ALcuYj073417@green.homeunix.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" writes: >Please inform me what makes mdconfig(8) dangerous when operating on a vnode. >If the only thing that can be said is "-o async may cause deadlocks," then >this is not "marginal extra protection" against a mode of operation that >should, except for use of this option, cause no instability. Do you >believe that the average hacker will think "o async, that actually sounds >dangerous... maybe I should look it up first?" I think you are blowing things out of proportion, yes. -- 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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