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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: mount a dirty file system without fsck (was Re: what is fs_clean for?)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 17:45:51 GMT
Message-ID: <CELAoG.IDt@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <2945gj$i0h@acsc.com>
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
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In <2945gj$i0h@acsc.com> jerry@acsc.com (Jerry Chen) writes:
>As I learn more and more from the UFS source code, it seems
>dangerous to me if we allow the BSD system to mount a dirty UFS file system.
Your analysis seems correct at first glance.
Anyway, I see no reason why one should be able to mount a dirty
filesystem, except if it's mounted read-only.
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