Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:51:43 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_vfsops.c Message-ID: <20060422085143.734e2f24.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060422133933.A56433@fledge.watson.org> References: <200604210714.k3L7EQhD046878@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060421161321.J44089@fledge.watson.org> <20060421212322.2f5b3fa8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <1A949C80-E65D-4349-8028-8B0EB1A91D27@FreeBSD.org> <20060422001635.247a8b88.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20060422133933.A56433@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:45:35 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Which is why I suggested that, similar to Linux, we make everything an > > option instead of either Warning before you build/install the new kernel or > > add the addition headache of turning it on later. Thus, I'm still of the > > opinion that one does not blindly add a newfs option during the install > > without understanding what's going on. > > The problem you're diagnosing is booting a kernel that doesn't support > features requested by the administrator. When this happens, there are really > only two things you can do: > > (1) Generate warnings and continue. > (2) Generate warnings and stop. > > We opt for (1) because it makes recovery easier. Deleting the warnings helps > neither case. Booting an SELinux system without an SELinux kernel will fail > in many spectacular ways, but I'm not sure if they generate a warning > equivilent to the one you deleted. > > BTW, turning on the multilabel flag in sysinstall is not an option offered by > the installer -- by setting it using sysinstall's "additional flags" field, > you're specifially doing something not part of the install path. The MAC Heh, exactly why I wanted to remove it. :) Someone would need a reason to do it this way, I was hoping in this case that someone would have a clue. It's reverted in any case. ;) -- Tom Rhodes
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