> I am the developer who did the work for this feature. > We originally had > a force flag planned for all the utilities that were > modified to enable > in use checking. However, the force flag was an area > of much debate and > in the end we removed it. We recognize this is a > potential issue for > experienced sysadmins. My suggestion, file an RFE and > if enough people > feel this is an issue then we can revisit this > decision.
I definitely second enabling the admin to do what he needs to do. Simply bind the override functionality to -e, because that's the expert mode. And if I know about the expert mode, that implies that I know what I'm doing. So I want all and any obscure functionality available to me when I run `format -e`. No trying to be "smart", no "intelligence", just give us a "Voodoo-hoodoo what-you-don't-dare-do-people" functionality with -e. It is already noted in the man pages that the expert mode is to be used with caution and only if one knows what one is doing. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
