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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 14:55:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem clean flag 
Message-ID:  <199503192255.OAA02707@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 12:24:56 PST." <199503192024.MAA24478@ref.tfs.com> 

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>> 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.
>
>Why would he need to mount it writeable for that ?

   Yes, this is why I said "writable" above. I would always want read-only to
work. ...but like I just said in a previous message, an option to force the
system to mount writable it wouldn't be unreasonable.

-DG



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