> 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).
So for the end user it's better to have the bug go unnoticed than to get a kernel panic and notice the bug? Please tell me I'm misunder- standing something here. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message