Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Alan L. Cox wrote:
> 
> > Please remove ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT from your kernel configuration.  This
> > code has never been safe for general use.
> >
> > Unfortunately, when it was documented in NOTES, this was fact was
> > omitted.
> 
> Is the attached diff appropriate, then?

Yes, it is.  I was just composing an e-mail to re@ about this.  Thanks! 

> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Network Associates Laboratories
> 
> Index: NOTES
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /data/fbsd-cvs/ncvs/src/sys/conf/NOTES,v
> retrieving revision 1.1117
> diff -u -r1.1117 NOTES
> --- NOTES       26 Nov 2002 17:32:39 -0000      1.1117
> +++ NOTES       9 Dec 2002 00:29:06 -0000
> @@ -737,6 +737,9 @@
>  #
>  # Enabling this will probably not give an overall speedup except for
>  # special workloads.
> +#
> +# WARNING: Do not enable this, it is known to be broken, and will result
> +# in system instability, as well as possible data loss.
>  options        ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT
> 
>  # Cryptographically secure random number generator; /dev/[u]random

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