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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: panic: update: rofs mod
Message-ID: <Dqr3JD.C4o.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:50:01 GMT
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I have a removeable disk containing a filesystem which can not be
mounted read-write because it was not cleanly dismounted.  If I mount
it read-only, when I umount it the system panics with the message
"update: rofs mod".

It's possible that this is technically not a bug, because it's a file
system that's been mounted under the Hurd, so who knows what
non-standard extensions have been used.  On the other hand, I'm
somewhat surprised that it produces this error.  Is there any known
bug in 2.1-release that would cause this?  Is it worth investigating
further?

-- Richard
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