aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Then it is not an "emergency" hatch. Using an "emergency" hatch in non
emergency, or emergency-drill, situation is in most  case strictly
forbidden. It would rather be a service hatch. In which case, that
part of geom is just badly designed.

 - Arnaud