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Date:      Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:35:18 -0700
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=c3=b8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r304142 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit
Message-ID:  <4d097835-66ce-72b6-c774-a87e38d88625@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <867fbe3yd3.fsf@desk.des.no>
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On 08/18/16 08:12, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes:
>> We have a mechanism (GEOM stripe size) for drivers to supply a default
>> alignment to userland. If we think we can get that right, great. If we
>> don't think we can get it right, the default system policy in the
>> absence of real information from drivers should be modified to report
>> a number that we think is more likely to be safe than the current
>> defaults (the logical sector size, usually 512 bytes) and potentially
>> tunable by the user. Hacking the userland tools one-by-one to impose
>> their own default policies to override the systemwide one is, while a
>> perfectly valid stopgap right before a release, a ridiculous long-term
>> solution. Do you disagree with any of that?
> I'll tell you whether I agree or disagree when you stop putting words in
> my mouth.
>
> DES

This is ridiculous. I've asked a series of technical questions about 
generalizing a patch you made and that I think is a good idea. In 
response, those questions have been met with a non-stop torrent of 
insults and abuse instead of answers, with only one eventual nugget of 
information in response to one of them -- that you ran into problems 
with mfid -- to redeem it. I'm done with this discussion.

Hopefully we can have a real conversation about this at this some point 
after the release.
-Nathan



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