Re: [PATCH 2/2] expert_mode: Add a new configuration option for expert users.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04:15AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:08 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > This could also be called 'seatbelt' option.
> > 
> > libxl has a variety of checks where it will fail out an operation
> > unless the user has provided an --force (or --ignore) parameter.
> > Currently one such check is for the 'vcpu-set' command which
> > will error out if the count of virtual cpus is greater than the
> > physical cpus. This parameter will ignore such checks and allow
> > the user to do the operations without the need for override flags.
> 
> Does this overlap  somewhat with various commands which individually
> take a -f(orce) option?

Not exactly. This particular issue was more of the variety of - we
add some checks that earlier version of toolstacks did not have. And
as such we fail to do the operation _unless_ a force is given.

But all of this kind of falls under a seatbelt function - if the user
knows what he or she is doing could be bad, well - if they know what
they are doing then they can go ahead.