Subject: Re: Patch to disallow mounts of unclean FFS unless forced
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/14/2003 15:38:08
On Monday 13 October 2003 06:09 pm, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> The following patch changes the FFS code to disallow mounts of unclean
> file systems unless the mount is forced. Mounts can be forced by root
> using the -f flag to mount(8). Non-root users are not allowed to force
> mounts (this is enforced by sys_mount()). The initial mount of the
> root file system is always forced.
So, exactly what problem are you attempting to solve here? This is one of the
most irritating misfeatures of FreeBSD.