From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jan 26 14:22:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99FE152E4 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA53050; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:52:03 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:52:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Wade , "Jeffrey S. Sharp" , freebsd-small Subject: Re: Mounting flash file systems (was: your mail) Message-ID: <20000127085202.G44457@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000127083708.A44457@freebie.lemis.com> <002201bf67c6$f76b4090$0dea5e18@mmcable.com> <20000127083708.A44457@freebie.lemis.com> <200001262217.PAA03197@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001262217.PAA03197@harmony.village.org> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 15:17:29 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. Agreed, but sometimes you have to update the stuff. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message