Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:47:03 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic on mount with write-locked USB media (umass) Message-ID: <64913bc58ab8884979cc81a0529df142@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050405193652.0434F5D08@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050405193652.0434F5D08@ptavv.es.net>
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On Apr 5, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Then I plugged it in with the write lock switch on and tried to mount > it. "mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Permission denied" Hey! I'm root! This > is supposed to work. Sounds like the partitioning and GEOM foot > shooting > thread. Oh, well, but this really could be handled better. What happens if you try to mount a read-only NFS volume as read-write? Being root gives one superhuman powers over the local machine, but it does not make a device which is write-protected by hardware writeable. It would be useful if mount was smart enough to notice when it is dealing with a read-only device, and try to mount such things read-only, rather than trying to mount things read-write by default and failing. Of course, the system shouldn't panic, either. :-) -- -Chuck
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