From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 11:51:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from golden.argonet.co.uk (golden.argonet.co.uk [194.131.104.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8BA915A94 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carson@causality.com) Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by golden.argonet.co.uk with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 11JLd0-0006Qz-00; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:49:03 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:49:02 +0100 (BST) From: "Neil A. Carson" X-Sender: carson@fm3.facility.pipex.com Reply-To: "Neil A. Carson" To: Manuel Bouyer Cc: Wolfgang Solfrank , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs In-Reply-To: <19990824150652.A4107@antioche.lip6.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ext2fs in Linux already has some support for mount downgrading or forcable unomunting (maybe) in the case of an FS error. For something like a floppy, it ought to be possible to force-unmount the disc in the event of a metadata error. Neil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message