From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 16 3:20: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC8437B403; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15tRJm-00066l-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:19:26 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Doug Barton , Matt Dillon , Matthew Jacob , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:48:29 +0200." <4661.1003218509@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:19:26 +0200 Message-ID: <23482.1003227566@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:48:29 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Bad idea. > > If !8:1 b:f ratios doesn't work it should be PR'ed and fixed, not > canonified in a man-page. Spoken like a true hacker. :-) This has been a known (albeit poorly understood) problem for a very long time. I understand that you fear this problem becoming a feature through documentation, but the alternative is that the problem continues to bite new-comers in the ass indefinitely. I say the documentation should reflect reality. Perhaps it'll annoy someone like you enough to investigate and fix the problem. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message