Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603310946.LAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960330112146.22875D-100000@sxt2.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at Mar 30, 96 11:55:44 am
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As Brian N. Handy wrote: > > ..., about nobody really uses file systems on > > floppies... > > Well...I usually don't either. A colleage had blown away his > libc.so.3.0, and needed a new copy so I figured this would be simple. Why didn't you do what everybody else does: create a tar floppy? (Mount a r/o medium read-write.) > (2) Maybe the mount routine should complain and die if it tried to mount > the floppy read-write when the floppy is write-protected. Our floppy driver is not smart enough about write-protected media at open(2) time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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