In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel_at_buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes: >On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: >> BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently >> in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a >> warning at least? > >I actually agree with this. It's so frustrating to not be able to do >what you want to do as root. I tend to belive in sensible safety features. Forcing people who do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism first doesn't strike me as a bad idea. Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_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.Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 11:47:10 UTC
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