So- should we make the default behaviour more sane?


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Friday, September 12, 2003 at 17:55:03 (-0700), Matthew Jacob wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Endless tape?
> >
> >
> > POLA for whom? For people used to AIX, SOlaris, SunOS, and others, it
> > was a POLA violation. For those who had i386NetBSD work a certain way,
> > it wasn't.
>
> Actually for many people using NetBSD/i386 the old behaviour was a
> serious problem and major limitation to NetBSD.
>
> The fact the fixed behaviour was not made the default was a huge
> surprise for me, and the last times I've used tape drives was on
> NetBSD/i386.
>
> As for Solaris users now using NetBSD, for example, one I know was quite
> incensed that this was only a compile-time option, especially given that
> it defaulted to the broken behaviour.
>
> Also an avid and expert FreeBSD/i386 user I know was also quite upset
> about these problems, so much so that I doubt he'll bother looking at
> NetBSD on any platform for quite some time.  The real problem there is
> that he'll also work a lot harder to disuade potential NetBSD users from
> using NetBSD even when it might be the best solution for them.
>
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