In message <200504060835.j368ZB2i009939_at_dungeon.home>, Stephen McKay writes: >On Wednesday, 6th April 2005, "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: >As a "self described wizard", I know which sectors I can write safely. >Protect the novices all you like, but don't prevent me from doing >interesting/extraordinary things. You're not being prevented from shooting your foot off, you just have to push the right button to disable the vertical shot prevention feature. >>So for all I care, this discussion is over until somebody comes up >>with a patch we can all agree on. > >"Harrumph!" he said, and stalked from the room. :-) Yes, in fact, I find the W/S ratio [1] in this thread to be waaay over my workplace safety threshold. >I'm not yet convinced that this whole thing is not just a bug. I'm off >to read some manuals and some code... It is in fact a carefully designed behaviour of GEOM and if you can come up with a better way of doing it you are more than welcome to submit working code. Poul-Henning [1] That's Whine/Signal ratio in case you wondered. -- 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 Wed Apr 06 2005 - 06:58:19 UTC
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