Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:10:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd@mawer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [REVIEW/TEST] Rewritten floppy driver. Message-ID: <20040819191044.GB670@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <4124F3A0.2030509@mawer.org> References: <20040819141310.GA756@gicco.homeip.net> <19666.1092926344@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040819161000.GB843@gicco.homeip.net> <20040819164751.GB4004@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <4124F3A0.2030509@mawer.org>
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On 2004-08-20 04:38, Antony Mawer <fbsd@mawer.org> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>If a writeprotected floppy can't be mounted writable it's > >>sufficient. > > > >The patch prevents read-write mounts of read-only floppies: > *snip* > >: orion# mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt > >: mount: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system > > Would a more optimal solution be to show a warning indicating that the > disk was write-protected, and proceed to mount the filesystem read-only? > This may be a ridiculous proposal - I don't know enough about the code > in question to say - but it was just a thought! :-) I know very few things about the way this patch works too, but I did some tests using userlevel tools earlier tonight. I've emailed PHK with some comments and I'm sure if what you propose can be done he's the best person to actually do it ;-)
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