From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 24 08:24:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24876 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:24:54 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24829 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:24:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20824; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:22:34 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA07140 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:22:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA16922 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:05:20 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508241505.RAA16922@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mntopts.h mount.c To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:05:17 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <17617.809267994@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 24, 95 05:39:54 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1153 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Is what I am saying, is don't change default behavior, make it more > > flexiable. Defaults are not sutiable for all sites, so changeing them > > As was my motivation behind committing noauto. How in the dickens did > we get off in the tangent about modifying rc now?? Maybe we > should take this off committers? :) (moved to -hackers) Well, i'm still claiming that it's not a matter of "noauto" or not, it's simply inappropriate for most people around to have the multi- user boot fail simply because the CD didn't mount, while they would like to have the CD auto-mounted whenever there is a medium in the drive at boot time (thus, "noauto" wouldn't help). I'm currently running such a configuration, and i don't think my machine is too much off the "generic user's expectation" :) in this area. The "noauto" thing might have other merits (not typing the full mount command line, allow non-root mounts), but it's IMHO the wrong workaround for just _this_ problem.. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)