Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 1 May 1996 02:21:14 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: ext2: bug or feature |
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Yesterday I put a "errors=ro" in my /etc/fstab, because my manual > page was misformatted. Unfortunately this entry did not let me mount > the filesystem rw during normal startup. In addition I could not > login with / being read-only. > > I think even if an invalid option for "errors" is specified, the > filesystem should be allowed to be mounted rw.
While we're bashing mount, how about having mount complain about and then ignore invalid/unsupported mount options? Booting a kernel without quota support on a box that normally has quota, mount won't mount any partition that has quota options...at least not on my old systems:
(u)mount: version from util-linux-1.10
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