Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:29:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <7607.1003228180@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:19:26 %2B0200." <23482.1003227566@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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In message <23482.1003227566@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >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. So far, I have nothing which even makes me suspect that b:f ratio introduces bugs. There have been so many other issues during the same period that I think there is no basis for the claim. That is why I'm against canonifying this bit of FUD in the manpage. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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