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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <200101291912.f0TJChF04687@mass.dis.org> from Mike Smith at "Jan 29, 2001 11:12:43 am"
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It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > It seems Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can we have this as a command line settable option (e.g., a hint)?
> > 
> > Later, I need to figure out if I can turn this into a sysctl, but it
> > depends on all drives accepting the write strategy to be changed
> > on the fly...  So for now this is an option...
> 
> Er, it should be a tunable with a default (if it's system-wide), or it 
> should be a hint.  Stuff like this should *never* be an option.

I do not agree on that one.. 

However, when I get to making the access modes tuneable I'll add this
one too, if you need it before that, please send me a patch and I'll
integrate that into the WIP version here...

-Søren


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