aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> In message <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w at mail.gmail.com>
>> , Arnaud Lacombe writes:
>>
>>>User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a
>>>hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security
>>>issue here...
>>
>> There is a big difference between having an emergency hatch that
>> gives you a chance to escape certain death by running across a
>> shooting range, and on posting a sign telling people to use it as
>> a short-cut.
>>
> I will certainly never ask you to draw blueprints for a shooting
> range. There is NO legitimacy whatsoever for an emergency hatch to
> pass though the firing line.

    Certain groups do use this emergency hatch in production to get
past safeguards and purposely zero out disks. Granted, it's an
ill-advised procedure for most end-users.
Thanks,
-Garrett