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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.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.

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