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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd)
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:27:25 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>,
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Well, I suspected that it might not work... but I would disagree that it
> > was *obvious* that it would not work. This was before "mount" had been
> > run, so / was supposedly mounted (?) read-only.
> 
> I've seen ufs write back the superblock on unmounting a read-only
> filesystem (!). it was a few years ago but I wouldn;t be surprised if it
> was still true..
> 
> After you did it on the filesystem. (ran growfs) what did you do next?
> the safe answer would be to pull the plug.

"reboot"

It seems counter-intuitive that a filesystem mounted "read only"
would be modified by the kernel. I'm sure there's some subtlety
I'm not aware of though..

-Archie

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