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From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@iname.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Writes to mounted devices containing file-systems.
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 14:47:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010811144729.B31614@wyvern> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010810075750.10479A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010810075750.10479A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:43:58 -0400 (+0000), Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Is it possible that Linux could decline to write to a device that
> contains mounted file-systems? OTW, don't allow raw writes to
> devices or partitions if they are mounted; writes could only
> be through the file-systems themselves.
[snip]

Personally I'd prefer AIX's approach - let the write through (if the user
wants to shoot themselves in the foot...), but report an error about it (to
syslog). 

Adrian

Email: adrian.bridgett@iname.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-11 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-10 12:43 Writes to mounted devices containing file-systems Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-10 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-10 13:23 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-10 13:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-10 14:22   ` Matt
2001-08-10 18:04 ` Steve VanDevender
2001-08-10 19:18 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-11 12:28   ` Kai Henningsen
2001-08-10 19:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-11 13:47 ` Adrian Bridgett [this message]
2001-08-11 19:16   ` H. Peter Anvin

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