On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 01:37  PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> What is to be done with an unclean filesystem image on read only media?
> (The kind of think you'd get if you just copied a mounted filesystem 
> to CDROM).

Use the -f flag to force the mount.

> Exactly what problem is being fixed here?

Right now, it's incredibly easy to accidentally mount an unclean file 
system that can cause the kernel to panic.  I'm trying to make it 
harder to have the accident happen.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>