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friendly-recovery package

  1. Bug #575469
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 575469

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than read-only

Do we really need to change the ui, here? What if we used the existing friendly-recovery options to decide whether or not to tell mountall to mount read-write? I guess the choice of recovery options that require read-write disk is rather clear.

I also am not nearly as worried about the UI change as I would be about the new code being written for mountall (which would violate FFe). We would need a UI freeze exception, true, but UI Freeze is primarily about *coordinating* changes, not about forbidding them entirely - and this is a significant enough bug in the recovery mode that I think all users are better off with a possibly-untranslated facility than with not having the facility at all. Whereas the mountall changes are risky and could make recovery mode less stable / usable for everyone.