Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:14:56 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: drek@MonsterByMistake.Com (Agent Drek) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access floppy rw to lock system Message-ID: <200001130214.TAA03924@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001121051270.20966-100000@bunny.monsterbymistake.com> from Agent Drek at "Jan 12, 0 11:01:08 am"
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As I recall, Agent Drek wrote: > > I have a repeatable problem on my FreeBSD-3.4Stable workstation. If > the floppy disk is physically tabbed as read-only and I mount it rw I > can then 'lock' the system up by using vim (to read a text-file on the > disk ... less had the same problem). Is this expected behaviour? I > did this from the console and could still <Alt> between the virtual > consoles. The only way to get going again was to reboot. After that > happened twice I tabbed the disk writable and things were fine. I'd start by asking, "Why would you do that?" If you make the media read-only at the hardware level, by all means mount it read-only. If you're just asking why this interesting phenomenon occurs, that's a different question. I'm not sure if it's an MS-DOS filesystem, but a UFS mount will want to modify the superblock with the mount time and mount point. Mostly, I suspect, so that fsck can display that information. :-) -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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