From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 3 09:20:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA00699 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:20:03 -0700 Received: from wc.cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [192.216.223.37]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA00656 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:19:43 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by wc.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA05100 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 09:05:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA06064; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:22:11 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA22075; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:21:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA18115; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:18:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506031218.OAA18115@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mount "features" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:18:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: agl@redline.ru Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199505262028.GAA12512@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 27, 95 06:28:16 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 653 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > >(on the write protected floppy) Well, getting tons of errors from the kernel, > >ok > > Mount (rw) and open ([r]w) don't check for writability. The mount succeeds > and you get errors later. It's the floppy driver. I plan to fix this later (but definately not for 2.1 -- i wouldn't like to blow the floppy driver again for such a cosmetic thing). The last fix^H^H^Hhack we've got for this has been way too simple, and it had some very ill side-effects. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)