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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:36:55 +0200
From:      Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
To:        "Neil A. Carson" <neil@causality.com>
Cc:        Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
Message-ID:  <19990825103655.C3122@antioche.lip6.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990824194809.24493B-100000@fm3.facility.pipex.com>; from Neil A. Carson on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 07:49:02PM %2B0100
References:  <19990824150652.A4107@antioche.lip6.fr> <Pine.SOL.3.96.990824194809.24493B-100000@fm3.facility.pipex.com>

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[ tech-userlevel@netbsd.org removed from cc:, it's not a userlevel issue
  any more ]
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 07:49:02PM +0100, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> ext2fs in Linux already has some support for mount downgrading or forcable
> unomunting (maybe) in the case of an FS error. For something like a
> floppy, it ought to be possible to force-unmount the disc in the event of
> a metadata error.

And, to my experience this is not a good feature (but I think it's an
implementation issue). A HD error left one of my machine with a root filesystem
in an unusable state. I had to boot a netbsd floppy to recover data from other
partitions (which didn't have errors :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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