Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green_at_freebsd.org> writes: > 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. Solaris on Sparc (don't know about i386) has a nice way of doing this, it also does _not_ sync your disk in case of a panic but you call sync from the OpenBoot Prompt. [insert a OpenBoot is better than i386 bios flame here] Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not foundReceived on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 19:01:30 UTC
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