Dear all,
I feel like this has come up before, but a quick search didn't reveal
anything terribly recent, at least.
The new installation chapter of the handbook for 9.0 (that Warren and Glen
and Garrett and Gavin and more people I am probably missing have sunk huge
amounts of time into) has instructions on (e.g.) preparing a USB stick
install image:
http://www.glenbarber.us/FreeBSD9/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
(scroll down most of the way). But in order to do so, the instructions
include 'sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16'! Now, an ordinary user who is
doing this for the first time might ask, "why do I need to do something
with 'debugflags' in order to make a USB stick? I'm not debugging
anything, this is a standard operation!".
I can't really advocate for changing the geom logic at this point in the
release cycle (though it's not really clear why rank 1 geom providers need
to be so special), but I think it would be nice to have a user-visible
interface to it that does not have "debug" in the name, since the actual
flags are apparently here for the long haul. I could certainly imagine
aliasing the debugflags to just "flags", which seems more
innocuous-sounding.
Does this sound crazy?
-Ben Kaduk
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