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 :) -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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