From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 25 1:38:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from antioche.lip6.fr (antioche.lip6.fr [132.227.74.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCFB1597A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr) Received: from antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr [132.227.72.132]) by antioche.lip6.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10876; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:36:56 +0200 (MEST) Received: (bouyer@localhost) by antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (8.8.8/8.6.4) id KAA03151; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:36:55 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:36:55 +0200 From: Manuel Bouyer To: "Neil A. Carson" Cc: Wolfgang Solfrank , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <19990825103655.C3122@antioche.lip6.fr> References: <19990824150652.A4107@antioche.lip6.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6us In-Reply-To: ; from Neil A. Carson on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 07:49:02PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ tech-userlevel@netbsd.org removed from cc:, it's not a userlevel issue any more ] On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 07:49:02PM +0100, Neil A. Carson wrote: > 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. And, to my experience this is not a good feature (but I think it's an implementation issue). A HD error left one of my machine with a root filesystem in an unusable state. I had to boot a netbsd floppy to recover data from other partitions (which didn't have errors :) -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message