From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 12:21:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20754 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:21:08 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20740 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:20:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA07636; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:20:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id VAA18751; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:20:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA15103; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:05:07 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503192005.VAA15103@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Filesystem clean flag To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:05:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503191621.IAA02117@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 19, 95 08:20:55 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 524 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > The system should not allow mounting a dirty filesystem writable. But then, there should also be a way to get around this. The super user is assumed to know what he's doing -- and be it for the only reason to save just one [apparently good] file out of a totally damaged disk before newfs'ing it. Unfortunatley, -f is already used in mount(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)