From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 21:40:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A81516A4CE; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E2543D1D; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-119-74-222.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.119.74.222]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j37LelLS011926 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:40:50 -0700 Message-ID: <4255A8DE.8020509@root.org> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:40:46 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <20473.1112908593@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20473.1112908593@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: David Schultz cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:40:52 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20050407211443.GA29412@VARK.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes: > >>On Thu, Apr 07, 2005, Scott Long wrote: >> >>>scottl 2005-04-07 19:59:28 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> share/man/man4 geom.4 >>> Log: >>> Document the GEOM debug flags. >> >>Thanks! >> >>I really think the anti-footshooting stuff should be disabled >>temporarily until someone fixes sysinstall et al to not fail >>perfectly reasonable requests. > > > I really think sysinstall should exit with an error message > when people try to use it for things it cannot do. > > I do _not_ think we should cripple the rest of the system to cater > for sysinstall. I intended to add code to the grub port to automatically set this sysctl to the right value to allow it to write to the MBR since it currently fails in an obscure way. I never got around to it. Perhaps it makes sense to provide an easy way to write to the MBR so we aren't cut/pasting code to every MBR-type program that does the same thing (check the sysctl, if already set, do nothing, otherwise set and then clear the flag after doing the MBR write). -- Nate