Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:10:04 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: bugghy <bugghy@home.ro> Subject: Re: magic sysrq keys functionality Message-ID: <20040726191004.GC96815@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040726125328.L32601@pooker.samsco.org> References: <1090718450.2020.4.camel@illusion.com> <200407251112.46183.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1090790611.4628.1.camel@illusion.com> <20040726152151.GC1473@green.homeunix.org> <20040726114142.E32601@pooker.samsco.org> <20040726175219.GA96815@green.homeunix.org> <20040726121005.D32601@pooker.samsco.org> <20040726181821.GB96815@green.homeunix.org> <20040726125328.L32601@pooker.samsco.org>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:54:39PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > I think it would be prudent to add a nice fat "WARNING:" printf to the > > boot process. It's really not obvious that FreeBSD defaults to having > > your hard drives run "unsafely," even though it is usually faster. > > > > I think that this was discussed too. The problem is that Linux and > Windows also silently default to having it on, and breaking from that > status quo causes too much haertburn. The status quo of FreeBSD and Linux shouldn't really apply to FreeBSD... we're supposed to be about stability and correctness. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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