In message <[email protected]>, Marcel Moolenaar 
writes:

>Rather than just calling it a bad idea, why not come up with something
>constructive?

One thing I would like to point out, is that the potential for
damage is very different in R/O and R/W mode.

I think it would be prefectly justified to refuse a R/W open of
a provider if there is credible reason to think that might
ruin data.

But I have a very hard time seeing the point in preventing a R/O
open which would allow people to examine if there is an actual
problem.

At the most basic level, not creating the slices prevents
people from even running "fsck_msdosfs -n /dev/da0s1" to get
an idea if things are totally bonkers...

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