[REVIEW/TEST] Rewritten floppy driver.
Antony Mawer
fbsd at mawer.org
Thu Aug 19 11:38:28 PDT 2004
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>If a writeprotected floppy can't be mounted writable it's
>>sufficient.
>
> The patch prevents read-write mounts of read-only floppies:
*snip*
> : orion# mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt
> : mount: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system
Would a more optimal solution be to show a warning indicating that the
disk was write-protected, and proceed to mount the filesystem read-only?
This may be a ridiculous proposal - I don't know enough about the code
in question to say - but it was just a thought! :-)
Cheers
Antony
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