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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Delete a directory, crash the system
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:57:07 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Yes. It'd be nice if UFS/FFS would just downgrade things to read-only
> and not panic.

That would be possible, but it would confuse programs and users.
It's not that you could walk up to the disk drive and flip the
"write protect" switch back... ;-)



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Polytropon
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