Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:55:02 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Filesystem clean flag Message-ID: <199503192255.OAA02707@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 12:24:56 PST." <199503192024.MAA24478@ref.tfs.com>
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>> As David Greenman wrote: >> > >> > The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable. >> >> But then, there should also be a way to get around this. The super >> user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only >> reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally >> damaged disk before newfs'ing it. > >Why would he need to mount it writeable for that ? Yes, this is why I said "writable" above. I would always want read-only to work. ...but like I just said in a previous message, an option to force the system to mount writable it wouldn't be unreasonable. -DG
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