cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Mar 10 13:15:13 PST 2004


In message <200403102109.i2AL96dn073169 at green.homeunix.org>, "Brian F. Feldman"
 writes:

>Could you please implement an errx(3) for MD_ASYNC without MD_FORCE, or 
>something of that ilk?  Users who use anything other than mdconfig(8) for 
>leanring how to use mdconfig(8) could quite easily run across something like:
>	"Make sure to use -o async to get better performance."
>and shoot themselves in the foot, whereas if they saw:
>	"Make sure to use -o force -o async..."

mdconfig(8) is plenty dangerous as it is, obfuscating the arguments
is not an improvement for the marginal extra protection.

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