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Xref: sserve comp.sys.sun.admin:51033 comp.unix.solaris:43271 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:549 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!tribune.hri.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!twinsun!not-for-mail From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Date: 9 Aug 1995 22:37:25 -0700 Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40c5ul$jn8@light.twinsun.com> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <4099s8$6ep@empire.texas.net> <40atpg$psj@nova.netapp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: light.twinsun.com guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) writes: > the comment that Larry McVoy put into the [SunOS] 4.1.x [tunefs] man page > after putting that line back from the *last* time some humorless soul > removed it ... nonwithstanding. Here's the bug report that I filed about this back in 1993 (Sun bug 1152464). (And I wasn't even the first Sun customer who complained about this.) The following four lines appear at the end of the file /usr/man/man8/tunefs.8 on Solaris 1.x machines, but they have been unaccountably removed from the file /usr/man/man1m/tunefs.1m on Solaris 2.x machines. .\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until .\" the time_t's wrap around. .sp You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. Please bring these lines back. Removing them has brought bad luck to us; our Solaris 2.x machines keep hanging and crashing. The time_t's don't wrap around until January 2038, and we can't wait that long. Thanks. I was told I'd see the `tune a fish' message back in the manual. But did it reappear? Nooooo. And my Solaris 2.x hosts have been hanging and crashing ever since. It's enough to make one switch to BSD/OS, which still has the joke. Don't laugh: the kind of humorless person who removes good-luck charms from man pages is the kind of person who places higher priority on bureaucratic correctness than on reliability, performance, and sound engineering!