From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 01:50:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13475 for current-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13448 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA04999; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:50:26 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA19283; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:50:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id LAA10060; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:46:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603310946.LAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at Mar 30, 96 11:55:44 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)