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Date:      Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:30:48 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD 
Message-ID:  <199909081830.MAA21513@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:11:12 PDT." <199909081811.LAA88623@apollo.backplane.com> 
References:  <199909081811.LAA88623@apollo.backplane.com>  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990908125631.44707B-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> 

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In message <199909081811.LAA88623@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     It is best, of course, to run fsck only on filesystems that have not
:     been mounted but this cannot be done for the root filesystem for obvious
:     reasons, hence the read-only mount + fsck + remount R/W.

Back in the Bad Old Days, when this option didn't exist, if fsck
changed ANYTHING on /, the system rebooted...

Warner


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