From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 9:34:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D661337B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AEB43E6E; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9THYarF094461; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:34:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:27:12 +0100." <20021029182712.A1479@gicco.homeip.net> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:34:36 +0100 Message-ID: <94460.1035912876@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021029182712.A1479@gicco.homeip.net>, Hanspeter Roth writes: > On Oct 18 at 20:45, Maxim Sobolev spoke: > >> again, then again ad infinitum. The same effect if you'll mount >> write-protected floppy in read/write mode. This is just lame, but I'm not willing to to take a shouting match with the person who committed this brain-damage. >As of a write-protected floppy, why is it allowd to be mounted as >writeable? >The mount should be degraded to readonly or rejected. That's a slightly more involved issue because you would have to actually try to write to it before you find out that you can't. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message