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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD 
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:30:48 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199909081811.LAA88623@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     It is best, of course, to run fsck only on filesystems that have not
:     been mounted but this cannot be done for the root filesystem for obvious
:     reasons, hence the read-only mount + fsck + remount R/W.

Back in the Bad Old Days, when this option didn't exist, if fsck
changed ANYTHING on /, the system rebooted...

Warner


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