Am 24.06.2005 um 15:25 Uhr +0200 schrieb Peter Postma:
>Note that this is a volunteer project, the way you're complaining is
>not very motivating for, well, at least me.

Sorry for bruising your toes. I apologize for the tune.

OTOH, committing first, then asking back whether that's fine lacks 
style, no? How about pointing me to your planned changes and the 
ongoing discussion on tech-kern first, _before_ creating facts?

>Yes obsolete, according to dbj@netbsd.org:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2005/06/23/0023.html

Thanks for the pointer.

>Note that I have no clue about UFS/FFS so that's why I asked on tech-kern
>what to do. Note that I'm trying to fix things _for you_, since this PR
>was marked serious and submitted ~9 months ago, so I wanted to do something
>about it. But it seems that you can't appreciate this.. fine, whatever.

Had you provided that information in your first mail to me (or a 
pointer to it), the discussion would be moot. That the kernel does 
not look at maxcontig is news to me. Still, I'll stick with

>  > The newfs(8) '-a' option has code behind it. Remove
>  > that code (and I'd argue you shouldn't), and _then_ remove the man
>  > page entry.

-- I feel that we should either

o remove _all_ reference to the obsoleted option, and the related 
code, from newfs, or

o leave the information about what maxcontig is defined to do (see 
the reference to the Berkeley ffs design paper at the bottom of 
newfs(8)), and add the information that this is obsolete for NetBSD 
because the kernel doesn't use the information any more - so that 
admins from other OSes (see 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2001/05/03/0027.html) or older 
versions of NetBSD don't get confused.

>Note that this is a volunteer project, the way you're complaining is
>not very motivating for, well, at least me.

I was p!ssed off because you came after the fact, and with too little 
information. Still, I should have taken my time - and kept my temper 
- with a reply.

	hauke

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