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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject: Re: Mounting flash file systems (was: your mail) 
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:17:29 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20000127083708.A44457@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: I still think that a R/O file system would beat any of these.  If you
: have to mount R/W, leave it that way until reboot.

We've found that it is much safer to keep thinks R/O as much as
possible.  It makes it much easier to recover from power failure.

Warner


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