From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 5 8:18:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B5A37B401; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11BB43E3B; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECE22A88D; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Lars Eggert , n0go013 , current , not on list - please copy Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost In-Reply-To: <20021005222145.V11767-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 08:18:36 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20021005151836.7ECE22A88D@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > Worst case you will have the option to use: > > > > options NOGEOM > > options vinum > > A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a NOFFS option for turning off > forcing of the one true file system down everyone's throats. Part of the problem there is a weakness in config that I've threatened to fix on more than one occasion. We do not have a way to have options default to on and let people turn the option off. Negative options ("options NOFOO") are a poor substitute. In the past, a couple of things were unifdefed that might have been better served as being 'default to on' options or drivers. This of course is ignoring the issue of geom vs the disklabel code. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message