On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the > > kernel > > and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted > > all the time.
hmount doesn't actually do anything. If you modify it with hfsutils, then you're insane (and lucky). > then you have been lucky. the kernel will NOT be aware of the changes > to the filesystem that your making behind its back with hfsutils, > since hfsutils manipulates the raw device (/dev/[sh]d?[0-9]*). > modifying a read-write mounted filesystem with hfsutils is just asking > for serious filesystem corruption and even possibly a kernel > malfunction. I'd be careful about modifying even a read-only mount. The kernel could get itself confused because its cache would no longer agree with disk contents. (you would probably just get stale data, but you might actually get a kernel crash.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
