From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 08:58:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA93716A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:58:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (f170.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41FF43D1D for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:58:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j368wG65007153; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:58:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Stephen McKay From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:35:11 +1000." <200504060835.j368ZB2i009939@dungeon.home> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:58:16 +0200 Message-ID: <7152.1112777896@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:58:19 -0000 In message <200504060835.j368ZB2i009939@dungeon.home>, Stephen McKay writes: >On Wednesday, 6th April 2005, "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: >As a "self described wizard", I know which sectors I can write safely. >Protect the novices all you like, but don't prevent me from doing >interesting/extraordinary things. You're not being prevented from shooting your foot off, you just have to push the right button to disable the vertical shot prevention feature. >>So for all I care, this discussion is over until somebody comes up >>with a patch we can all agree on. > >"Harrumph!" he said, and stalked from the room. :-) Yes, in fact, I find the W/S ratio [1] in this thread to be waaay over my workplace safety threshold. >I'm not yet convinced that this whole thing is not just a bug. I'm off >to read some manuals and some code... It is in fact a carefully designed behaviour of GEOM and if you can come up with a better way of doing it you are more than welcome to submit working code. Poul-Henning [1] That's Whine/Signal ratio in case you wondered. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.