From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tunefs -m 5%
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 15:59:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210309045947.GC73112@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210306220302.GG1054@mcvoy.com>
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On Saturday, 6 March 2021 at 14:03:02 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 08:45:03AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> And that comment from FreeBSD's "tunefs" is still there:
>>
>> You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
>>
>> Funny; I could've sworn that it used to be "cannot tuna fish".
I checked the CSRG archive CDs. The line was added, as shown, in
4.2BSD:
--- ./4.1c.2/usr/man/man8/tunefs.8 1983-03-04 02:43:21.000000000 +1100
+++ ./4.2/usr/man/man8/tunefs.8 1983-07-27 18:21:46.000000000 +1000
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
@@ -66,3 +67,5 @@
Because the super-block is not kept in the buffer cache,
the program will only take effect if it is run on dismounted file systems.
(if run on the root file system, the system must be rebooted)
+.PP
+You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
> I did a checkin at Sun that added
>
> .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
> .\" the time_t's wrap around.
> .LP
> You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
>
> And of course, the numbnuts that ran Solaris took it back out. Unless I'm
> mistaken, I'm the dude that came up with the comment. I believe I spelled
> daemon wrong but whatever, I found that snippet in the FreeBSD sources so
> someone has a sense of humor and kept my comment.
Sadly, humour is no longer modern. A while back I updated the
documentation to gdb(4) in FreeBSD, and added under BUGS:
The debugging macros
.Dq "just growed" .
In general, the person who wrote them did so while looking for a specific
problem, so they may not be general enough, and they may behave badly when used
in ways for which they were not intended, even if those ways make sense.
And people took exception to "just growed" and converted it to "just
grown"! Not just a lack of humour, but also a lack of understanding
of literature and grammar. Somehow people take things too seriously
nowadays.
Greg
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2021-03-04 16:52 [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Will Senn
2021-03-04 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-04 18:31 ` arnold
2021-03-04 19:23 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-04 19:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-04 21:20 ` Robert Clausecker
2021-03-04 21:25 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 9:58 ` John Gilmore
2021-03-06 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-15 3:02 ` John Cowan
2021-03-15 18:15 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-15 21:19 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-15 23:47 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-16 3:10 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-15 21:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 21:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-15 21:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 22:06 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-16 13:25 ` arnold
2021-03-17 5:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 21:40 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 18:48 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-03-05 0:44 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:09 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-05 1:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:29 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-04 18:33 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 21:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:27 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:29 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:42 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:48 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 22:08 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-04 22:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-05 14:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 20:24 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 21:51 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 23:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 0:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 23:58 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-07 0:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-07 0:25 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-07 9:16 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-05 9:50 ` [TUHS] tunefs -m 5% John Gilmore
2021-03-05 15:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-05 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-06 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 1:52 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-06 21:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 22:03 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 4:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-03-06 23:52 ` David Barto
2021-03-06 1:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 22:10 ` [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Greg A. Woods
2021-03-05 1:41 ` alan
2021-03-05 1:55 ` alan
2021-03-05 2:06 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 17:08 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 17:19 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-05 19:39 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-03-05 19:51 ` Dan Halbert
2021-03-08 1:52 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 16:43 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2021-03-05 22:23 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 20:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:01 ` Clem Cole
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