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In message: <20040726191004.GC96815@green.homeunix.org>
            Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:54:39PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
: > > I think it would be prudent to add a nice fat "WARNING:" printf to the
: > > boot process.  It's really not obvious that FreeBSD defaults to having
: > > your hard drives run "unsafely," even though it is usually faster.
: > >
: > 
: > I think that this was discussed too.  The problem is that Linux and
: > Windows also silently default to having it on, and breaking from that
: > status quo causes too much haertburn.
: 
: The status quo of FreeBSD and Linux shouldn't really apply to FreeBSD...
: we're supposed to be about stability and correctness.

And we're also not supposed to get into stupid, absolute arguments.
All disk media is unsafe to some degree or another.  It is the degree
of the unsafeness that can be controlled.  To pretend otherwise, and
yell about how 'unsafe' it is really is counter productive.  The
current setting represents a compromise between many competing factors
and now is not the time to reopen the debate.  We've fought this war,
it is resolved.  Time to move on.

Warner