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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 1995 11:00:16 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: More nits 
Message-ID:  <11965.815338816@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 02:13:36 PST." <199511021013.CAA24971@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> Rather than yet another non-standard option, how about using the heuristic
> that if a filesystem doesn't have to be fsck'ed, it's okay for the
> mount to fail?  The theory being that a fs which must be fsck'ed is more
> critical than one which does not.  Both the CDROM filesystems and the DOS
> filesystems fit this heuristic.

That would leave any critical NFS filesystems to slip through the cracks.

I think David's right - another keyword is the way to go (but if nobody's
going to ADD this keyword, I propose we do the rc hack I suggested! :-)

					Jordan



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