GEOM is too verbose

[Maxim Sobolev]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <410BBB74.9010804 at portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
> 
>>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In message <410BB699.3060803 at portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Poul,
>>>>
>>>>I use application that detects size of disk using binary search. On 
>>>>current each attempt to read beyond disk boundary causes message on 
>>>>console, which is annoying. Can you please turn them off, since 
>>>>apparently they serve no meaningful purpose.
>>>
>>>
>>>Why don't you just use ioctl(DIOC_MEDIASIZE) ?
>>>
>>>or the diskinfo(8) program ?
>>
>>It is python program, so that ioctl() is out of question. Usage of 
>>diskinfo is possible but is not portable across different unices.
> 
> 
> sigh...  yeah, we should have fixed that 30 years ago.
> 
> Anyway, the message is intentional because you really have a bug
> when you try to read past the end of a disk.  Typically this means
> that a filesystem has lost its marbles.

IMO it should be conditional on DEBUG, because it is not something that 
happens during normal operation.

-Maxim