svn commit: r304142 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 08:21:49AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
> > This is ridiculous. I've asked a series of technical questions about
> > generalizing a patch you made and that I think is a good idea. In
> > response, those questions have been met with a non-stop torrent of
> > insults and abuse instead of answers, with only one eventual nugget of
> > information in response to one of them -- that you ran into problems
> > with mfid -- to redeem it. I'm done with this discussion.
> 
> I suggest you go and read through the discussion again.  I gave you
> plenty of information, mentioning LSI and hypervisors, for instance, and
> even, as I grew increasingly frustrated by your stonewalling, showed you
> how to inspect the code to confirm that most RAID drivers do not even
> try to report a stripe size.  Meanwhile, you steadfastedly refused to
> address my arguments, simply repeating your position again and again,
> and insisting that the fact that you have never encountered any systems
> that get the stripe size wrong (which I don't believe, but I'm willing
> to believe that you've never noticed) invalidates the fact that I have.
> Not to mention your steadfast defense of the non-existent purity of the
> installer.  When Warner finally intervened, you switched to setting up
> strawmen, asking me to pick and defend one of two positions which I've
> never held.  I'm not going to play that game.
> 
> > Hopefully we can have a real conversation about this at this some
> > point after the release.
> 
> Likewise, but I'm not holding my breath.
> 

I'll mediate this then.  Not right now.  I think everyone needs to step
back for a bit.

Glen

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