Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:34:26 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c Message-ID: <31451.1043735666@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:16:12 PST." <20030127211612.GA582@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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In message <20030127211612.GA582@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes : >As for the case where the configuration is changed in a destructive >or conflicting way this can cause all sorts of problems. And belive me, if we don't catch these problems even the most seasoned sysad will shoot holes in his feet some late night and will curse us for not catching an obvious conflict. >violation: in the above scheme, the SA is is responsible for getting >his feet out of the way. Failure to do so results in undefined >behaviour, including but not limited to panics, corruption and a >wooden foot. Sorry, but no, that will not be the way it will work. >> Now, if you want to cooperate on trying to make a generically usable >> interface for such operations, I'm all open for cooperation. > >Not so far. You have been telling me that you are working on the GPT >issue (see this MLs archive). I now get the distinct impression that >you have no plans whatsoever to finish the job you started. I don't know how many hours you have in a day, but I only have 24 of which a large number is allocated for non-FreeBSD activities. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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