From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 05:44:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433B3106564A; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lacombar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74ED98FC12; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5120081wwi.31 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:44:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JxAxCWeEzAQ7z3iONVpIMEAKyIxy+j84Qm8OpMWHj7c=; b=n5dwZai2VtrmzhNYRkArsIhrE/CgaWRa/PcRoP+Z9GkbP36Vzij4+cmrW3h2oMYsXi RxQhChtc9C33AaLqadNpUhlNRteA1LFoA4Q9PMw2qRbuSbzQEN0Du7NE95KgrHi2eWno DkJxKg2z1q+r5zcri1Wn2Vnq0LR6FG0m7K58Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.166.69 with SMTP id l5mr4821884wby.34.1319175854284; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.103.198 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:44:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E984BF9.4000700@FreeBSD.org> <1318607697-31950-1-git-send-email-lacombar@gmail.com> <4E9DA38F.1040305@FreeBSD.org> <006E57CF-F21F-4245-935A-9F391F0BCBEA@xcllnt.net> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:44:13 -0400 Message-ID: From: Arnaud Lacombe To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Warren Block , Marcel Moolenaar , Andriy Gapon , Marcel Moolenaar , Olivier Smedts , FreeBSD Current , Oliver Pinter Subject: Re: possible mountroot regression X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:44:16 -0000 Hi, On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Warren Block wrote= : >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote: >> >>> On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts wrote: >>>> >>>> 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar : >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' par= t? >>>>> >>>>> Yes, soonish. If people like the 'x' change I can do that in a follow= up >>>>> commit as well. I just need to know if people like it or not... >>>> >>>> Yes, it's useful. But why not "q" for "quit" ? Just a bikeshed color >>>> idea... >>>> >>> eXit :) >> >> In some languages... >> >> More important to me is the "the Abort manual input" which tells what it >> does but not why the user would want to do that. >> >> Abort manual input... and then what? =A0Hang? =A0Retry? =A0Panic? =A0Reb= oot? Resume >> attempting to mount the root device that was expected? > well, panic, there isn't much other thing to do. At the very least, letting the user input something is still better than what Linux do, which is to panic. > Or just go back to status quo for previous releases and we can worry > about usability later? > which status-quo ? the mountroot procedure of 7 is broken as well, as I found out yesterday. So what ? 6 ? 5 ? 4 ? - Arnaud