[ tech-userle...@netbsd.org removed from cc:, it's not a userlevel issue any more ] On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 07:49:02PM +0100, Neil A. Carson wrote: > ext2fs in Linux already has some support for mount downgrading or forcable > unomunting (maybe) in the case of an FS error. For something like a > floppy, it ought to be possible to force-unmount the disc in the event of > a metadata error.
And, to my experience this is not a good feature (but I think it's an implementation issue). A HD error left one of my machine with a root filesystem in an unusable state. I had to boot a netbsd floppy to recover data from other partitions (which didn't have errors :) -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. manuel.bou...@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
