Hi, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> In message >>> <cacqu3muqq6xqtfxhve1jtu4aey3kcdktcprd7ojq3ourdc8...@mail.gmail.com> >>> , Arnaud Lacombe writes: >>> >>>>User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a >>>>hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security >>>>issue here... >>> >>> There is a big difference between having an emergency hatch that >>> gives you a chance to escape certain death by running across a >>> shooting range, and on posting a sign telling people to use it as >>> a short-cut. >>> >> I will certainly never ask you to draw blueprints for a shooting >> range. There is NO legitimacy whatsoever for an emergency hatch to >> pass though the firing line. > > Certain groups do use this emergency hatch in production to get > past safeguards and purposely zero out disks. Granted, it's an > ill-advised procedure for most end-users. > Then it is not an "emergency" hatch. Using an "emergency" hatch in non emergency, or emergency-drill, situation is in most case strictly forbidden. It would rather be a service hatch. In which case, that part of geom is just badly designed.
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