Re: [patch] Improve documentation around FreeBSD Kernel Tuning

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 06:43:52PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Since I didn't actually tell you that I've made a context diff
> > for you, and it's attached. I'll let someone with more FBSD-fu than me
> > actually comment on it.
>
> I have no FBSD-fu whatever, but the question this patch raises in my
> mind is whether /boot/loader.conf exists in every version of FBSD.
> If not, we probably need to say something like "do this in versions >=
> whatever, and do the other in versions before that." Likewise, has
> it always been true that -w is unnecessary? For other systems
> such as Mac OS X, we have recommendations covering quite ancient OS
> releases, and I don't see why we'd not hold the FreeBSD section to the
> same standard.

Well.. The man page appeared somewhere between FreeBSD 3.0 and 4.0.. and
4.0 was released March 14, 2000.

Regards,
Brad Davis