Downplaying a serious issue

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-04-03 04:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:
>   
>   Do we?  What should it say?  Please be specific, preferably in the
>   form of a PR.  Is this really a doc problem?
>   
> Full disclosure.  Don't downplay.  Both the scope and the gravity of the
> issue is grossly downplayed here
> 

You are assuming it is being downplayed. As Glen explained, the breadth
of the issue was not known. Not that many people run i386 FreeBSD in a
hypervisor. If people do not file PRs, then how is anyone supposed to
know there is a problem?

> The truth is that FreeBSD/i386 10 is completely unusable under all three
> major type 1 virtualisers.  It should not be used, or one will cause
> data loss.

Did you try the fix that is stated in the errata?

> 
> It might be embarrasing to fess up about bugs, but downplaying serious
> issues make people lose confidence.  Which is worst?
> 
> 
> Torbjörn
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Allan Jude

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