Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:49:29 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Current Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: possible mountroot regression Message-ID: <4E984BF9.4000700@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <C65D6FB0-B52F-411C-9FF6-B1596C253377@xcllnt.net> References: <4E580B14.7090208@FreeBSD.org> <1A828073-1D5F-4850-9379-4AB62CF3DAE3@xcllnt.net> <4E5B4BFB.9040907@FreeBSD.org> <E2FDBF46-8DA6-4D13-B5B5-7EB22C220F9D@xcllnt.net> <4E5BF43A.5050306@FreeBSD.org> <4E5CB502.5020508@FreeBSD.org> <4E97E9E5.2020908@FreeBSD.org> <C65D6FB0-B52F-411C-9FF6-B1596C253377@xcllnt.net>
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on 14/10/2011 16:37 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > > On Oct 14, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 30/08/2011 13:01 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>> >>> So, just to re-iterate, I think that this is indeed a regression and the one >>> that could be particularly unhelpful for a new release - the time when people >>> are much more likely to end up at the mountroot prompt during an installation of >>> a new system or an upgrade. >> >> Marcel, >> >> is there any chance that this regression can be fixed before the release? > > Probably, yes. How do you want to fix this? Simple: revert to the previous behavior. If a user enters incorrect device name (i.e. root mounting fails), then return back to the prompt instead of panicing. > You haven't really expressed > what you would like to see, other than mentioning that you think it's a > regression from before. I thought that what I wrote above was kind of obvious. > Arguably, the previous behaviour had a lot to be > desired for so since you're worried about the user experience, thinking > this through is important. I didn't see anything bad with the previous behavior in this respect. >> If not, then maybe it would be proper to pull the change that introduced it out >> of the release branch (r214006) ? > > Don't be ridiculous. > -- Andriy Gapon
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