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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:35:23 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem clean flag 
Message-ID:  <199503202235.OAA02339@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 95 19:27:18 %2B1000." <199503200927.TAA15395@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> 

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>David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> writes;
>>>> As David Greenman wrote:
>>>> >    The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable.
>>>> 
>>>> But then, there should also be a way to get around this.  The super
>>>> user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only
>>>> reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally
>>>> damaged disk before newfs'ing it.
>>>
>>>Why would he need to mount it writeable for that ?
>>
>>   Yes, this is why I said "writable" above. I would always want read-only to
>>work. ...but like I just said in a previous message, an option to force the
>>system to mount writable it wouldn't be unreasonable.
>
>If you don't provide this option, I'll just have to add it.  Certainly a

   I should mention here that I don't intend to work on this before 2.1R. If
people want the problem with mouting dirty filesystems to be handled better in
2.1R, then someone other than me needs to make these changes and send them to
me. I'm far too busy dealing with kernel issues at the moment.

-DG



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