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Re: install/50033: WABPL(4) is not enabled by default in sysinst(8)



On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:00:01PM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR install/50033; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
> To: bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost
> Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
> Subject: Re: install/50033: WABPL(4) is not enabled by default in sysinst(8)
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:59:01 +0900
> 
>  > I did have problems several times after unclean shutdowns.
>  > It's serious enough for me to disable it on my servers (on a mail
>  > server it can cause email loss for example).
>  
>  Such heavy NetBSD users already know the risk and
>  they will disable it without any notice or documents.
>  
>  On the other hand, new novice users won't use NetBSD
>  for such serious server and they will see awful slowness
>  on pkgsrc tar extraction on the first trial with
>  the default installation.
>  
>  That's my concern.

And what will the novice user think if the system crash on a rm command,
or has a corrupted filesystem after a hard reset ?

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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