On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:25:28 +0100
From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:33:43PM +0000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
+> ru 2005-12-02 21:33:43 UTC
+>
+> FreeBSD src repository
+>
+> Modified files:
+> etc/rc.d root
+> Log:
[...]
+> "-u" no longer causes the transition from RO to RW,
+> now that mount(8) was converted to use nmount(2), so
+> an explicit change to RW is required. Keep up with
+> this change, and use "-uw" to mount root read-write.
Er, rc.d/root already had the explicit change (it said -u -o rw, not
just -u).
I really don't know how we can drop support for '-u'.
IMHO this is very widely used and will be a real PITA for users.
I also never saw '-uw' before (I always used just '-u').
Are you guys also volunteering to fix FreeBSD documentation?:)
I really, really do think that this is a very bad idea.
I agree.
Among the many places this needs to be changed is in the system upgrade
instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. I've been typing 'mount -u /' for so
many years that it will take some time to re-program my neurons,
too. :-(
I've always used "mount /". mount(8) knows that "/" is special and
always sets MNT_UPDATE for it. I think it then gets defaults from
fstab, so "/" gets mounted rw unless fstab says that it is ro. This
advantage of actually always working, unlike "mount -u /",
"mount -u -o rw /", "mount -u -o noro /" and "mount -uw /", since the
last 4 commands clobber all options that aren't specified on the
command line (the empty set of options on the command line in "mount -u /"
workse by clobbering the ro options). You have to say something like
"mount -u -o fstab,noro" or "mount -u -o current,noro" to fetch or
preserve when just changing ro to rw. (It seems to be necessary to use
noro when fstab or current set ro -- rw doesn't seem to cancel ro.)
The implicit -u -ofstab only works for "/".
Bruce
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