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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:38:10 -0800
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy)
Subject:   Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? 
Message-ID:  <199603311738.JAA13197@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:46:00 %2B0200." <199603310946.LAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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  From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
  Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken?
  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.

That is a bug.  Please file a PR



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