> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL) wrote:
>
> >The interesting quiestion is 'why is it not on by default'.

My assumption is backward compatibility.  I believe that earlier
versions didn't have the option at all, so when it was added it was
added off as default.

> >and why can you not set it on on the Default Pool, how silly of them

Same reason you can't change anything else on the Default pool.  They've
prevented making *bad* changes to the pool by preventing *all* changes
to the pool.

You can of course change it when networker is down.  Stop the daemons,
run nsradmin -f /nsr/res/nsr.res, then update the pool with auto media
verify: yes and the change will stick (same way you change recycle
to/from other pools on the Default pool).

> The same can be said about the view-details feature in nwadmin and the
> hidden options in the admin Windows GUI. Why have hidden options at all? I
> guess its simply a matter of a design choice, a poor design choice in both
> cases, in my humble opinion.

Hmm, to me that's very different.  Having only the most used items
available in the default view is entirely reasonable.  It speeds looking
for things and it prevents a lot of questions when you're becoming
familiar with the product.  Being presented with a list of 50 fields can
be daunting.

As long as you *can* access everything without jumping through hoops
(and I think clicking a single menu item is reasonable), I don't have
any issues with it.


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