Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> writes: > I would disagree with that. Invariants are for people who want > their data to be as safe as possible and don't mind eating a little > cpu doing extra sanity checks in the kernel. It is something I would > almost certainly enable in a production kernel.
Uh, no. Invariants are for developers who want to make sure their code is correct. There is no reason why an end user would want to build a kernel with invariants enabled. Invariants will *not* increase data safety. If they have any effect at all (i.e. if they actually catch a bug), the result is a panic (whereas with a kernel without invariants, the bug might actually go unnoticed). You must be thinking of the FAILSAFE option. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
