Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:22:49 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Panic on mount with write-locked USB media (umass) Message-ID: <5358.1112764969@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:55:27 BST." <20050405235414.D81173@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <20050405235414.D81173@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes: >> There are two ways that a filesystem correctly could handle a R/O media: >> >> 1. Fail with EROFS unless asked t mouned read-only >> >> 2. Silently downgrade th emount to read-only. >> >> I personally prefer the first because that way a script does not have to >> check if it got the mount it wanted or not. > >In general, I agree, but this will de-POLA the following command: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom Not really. The cd9660 filesystem can never be mounted R/W, it always mounts R/O by default so it will still DTRT. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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