From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 16 3:30:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A759337B407; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 03:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9GATea07609; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:29:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn 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 12:19:26 +0200." <23482.1003227566@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:29:40 +0200 Message-ID: <7607.1003228180@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 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