On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:54:39PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > I think it would be prudent to add a nice fat "WARNING:" printf to the > > > boot process. It's really not obvious that FreeBSD defaults to having > > > your hard drives run "unsafely," even though it is usually faster. > > > > > > > I think that this was discussed too. The problem is that Linux and > > Windows also silently default to having it on, and breaking from that > > status quo causes too much haertburn. > > The status quo of FreeBSD and Linux shouldn't really apply to FreeBSD... > we're supposed to be about stability and correctness. > Whoa there. What part of 'biblically bad things happen when you change this' did you not understand? Go look in the email archives to see the previous discussion. In short, I agree that it's not ideal, but I don't agree that your assertion that it must be changed. Not everything is black and white here. ScottReceived on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 18:35:33 UTC
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