[pups] 2.11BSD device config trouble
Steven M. Schultz
sms at 2BSD.COM
Thu May 1 14:04:30 AEST 2003
Hi -
> From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl at mpl.ucsd.edu>
> > > > 'halt' button?
> > > [...]
> >
> > I did the the same thing - wondered why I could never get a clean
> > file system. Then I realized what was going on.
>
> Isn't this really true of Unix systems of any age, when doing fsck
> on a mounted root file system?
Not really. Newer systems mount the root filesystem read-only
while running fsck. After the filesystem is verified as clean
then it is upgraded to read-write.
Older systems such as 2BSD can't run with a read-only root
filesystem that I know of. At least not easily/happily. Might be
possible (the ability to upgrade a ro mount to rw is present) but
it's never been a priority to look into it ;)
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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