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SubjectRe: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:43:42PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:19:46AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > At 11:54 PM 12/7/00, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> No amount of warnings can prevent morons from f**king up. Unix gives
> you enough rope et al. I'm not arguing for removal of any warning, but
> seriously, if we have a loud (DANGEROUS) warning in the config-system
> aaaaaand a warning in the help-text that the write-support probably will
> mess up your fs, how much more can you do? I bet that if we remove the

Well, simply insert sth. like this into ./fs/ntfs/fs.c:parse_options()

printk(KERN_EMERG "You're likely to crash your NTFS if you do any "
"write attempts to it. NTFS write support is broken and for "
"developers *only*. Do only use this if you're debugging it, "
"never ever use this on data you'd like to see tomorrow "
"again!!! Please remount in read-only mode *now* or don't "
"complain afterwards!");

Maybe that can prevent pupils^H^H^H^H^Heople from shooting their
foots...

MfG, JBG

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