Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:01:15 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: bugghy <bugghy@home.ro> Subject: Re: magic sysrq keys functionality Message-ID: <86wu0qxz38.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <20040726191004.GC96815@green.homeunix.org> (Brian Fundakowski Feldman's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:10:04 -0400") 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> <20040726191004.GC96815@green.homeunix.org>
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> writes: > 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. Solaris on Sparc (don't know about i386) has a nice way of doing this, it also does _not_ sync your disk in case of a panic but you call sync from the OpenBoot Prompt. [insert a OpenBoot is better than i386 bios flame here] Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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