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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 1999 04:12:34 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting double-ended SCSI disks
Message-ID:  <199901161712.EAA25555@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>I know that, but that's not the point here.  If the filesystem is
>>marked dirty, it could very well be corrupted.  Why am I allowed to
>>mount it (even read-only)?

Because you are root, and root never makes mistakes :-).

>how else would you fsck / if it was dirty ?

Boot from an alternative device to clean up.

Bruce

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