On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> You could still fsck a filesystem for which you do not have r/w
> support.

Aha, didn't know about that. BTW, there also PR #1210 which says:

">Arrival-Date:	Wed Jul 12 00:05:04 1995
>State:		open
>Description:
        There is no support in the AmigaDOS file system for writing,
        creating, or removing files, directories, etc.

>How-To-Repeat:	
	Try to mount an adosfs read-write (or, were that possible,
        try to do any of the above-named ops on the file system).

>Fix:	Add support for writing files.  A SMOP, right?  8-)"

And after consulting acronyms file for SMOP (simple matter of programming)
I realized it hasn't been one. I don't know if I should pull this string,
but Linux already got it. ;-)

Petri