If the player was left in rw mode at all times, then pulling the player out of the dash/pulling the power plug out will cause an fsck, as the partition will be marked dirty. This is annoying, and bad for the data.

The reason it is ro is so that you can pull the power at any time, and not have to worry about corrupting your filesystem.

It would be no fun to have to do a START | SHUTDOWN equivalent every time you turned the player off..

-Trevor

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