cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4

[David Schultz]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20050407211443.GA29412 at VARK.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes:
> >On Thu, Apr 07, 2005, Scott Long wrote:
> >> scottl      2005-04-07 19:59:28 UTC
> >> 
> >>   FreeBSD src repository
> >> 
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     share/man/man4       geom.4 
> >>   Log:
> >>   Document the GEOM debug flags.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >I really think the anti-footshooting stuff should be disabled
> >temporarily until someone fixes sysinstall et al to not fail
> >perfectly reasonable requests.
> 
> I really think sysinstall should exit with an error message
> when people try to use it for things it cannot do.
> 
> I do _not_ think we should cripple the rest of the system to cater
> for sysinstall.

I realize that sysinstall isn't directly relevant to you and I,
but it's important to just about everyone who installs FreeBSD for
the first time, and this is group we don't want to piss off.
Until we have something better, it's inappropriate to write it off
as broken and ignore it.

For the author of GEOM, the breakage should be easy to fix.  Why
not just fix it in the same way that you fixed fdisk over two
years ago?