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From: e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR10.1.p write to read-only file system
Message-ID: <646@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 18 Dec 89 09:39:56 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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If one attempts to create a file on a read-only nfs-mounted
filesystem, one gets the extremely confusing error message
"bad file number" in a bsd environment.

sysv is better, but terse: "cannot create"
aegis tells you why: "attempted write to read-only filesystem"

Eric Wassenaar
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