From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 11 1:53:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3286815231 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id JAA85125 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:53:29 GMT Message-ID: <36E79298.444D3E70@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:53:28 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: zone: entry not free - Default of state of Invariants References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > That's completely true, but nearly all users simply couldn't care less. > They don't see the long view, they only see what's happening right now. With that I will agree... :) > It's the reason that your attitude is totally correct & healthy for a > developer ... but the only thing that most users will see is the fact > that FreeBSD panics more often. They won't even bother to make of note > of why a panic occurred, all they will ever note is that a panic *did* > occur. Why not make the default 'OFF' for non -current, and just tell the users it's there? I know quite a few FreeBSD users, and out of the bunch I reckon ~3 of them would turn it on, and be happy - the other 9 or so would leave it off, and still be happy... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message