Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:34:36 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <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 Message-ID: <94460.1035912876@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:27:12 %2B0100." <20021029182712.A1479@gicco.homeip.net>
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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
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