>"Justin T. Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>It is not necessarily sufficient since the media may be changed after
>>open on certain types of devices that don't have a media lock.
>
>But don't you risk a panic if you do that?

By pulling the media out and flipping off the hardware write protect?

Even pulling out the media for a valid filesystem shouldn't panic.
All I/O to that volume should fail and your system may become next
to useless, but the system shouldn't panic.

--
Justin


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