From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 14:53:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA10682 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:09 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA10672 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:06 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA24472; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:02 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA02694; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:02 -0800 Message-Id: <199503192253.OAA02694@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Filesystem clean flag In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 21:05:06 +0100." <199503192005.VAA15103@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:53:01 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As David Greenman wrote: >> >> The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable. > >But then, there should also be a way to get around this. The super >user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only >reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally >damaged disk before newfs'ing it. > >Unfortunatley, -f is already used in mount(8). I would go along with this. -DG