Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:38:10 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <199603311738.JAA13197@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:46:00 %2B0200." <199603310946.LAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? As Brian N. Handy wrote: > > ..., about nobody really uses file systems on > > floppies... > > Well...I usually don't either. A colleage had blown away his > libc.so.3.0, and needed a new copy so I figured this would be simple. Why didn't you do what everybody else does: create a tar floppy? (Mount a r/o medium read-write.) > (2) Maybe the mount routine should complain and die if it tried to mount > the floppy read-write when the floppy is write-protected. Our floppy driver is not smart enough about write-protected media at open(2) time. That is a bug. Please file a PR
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