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From: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>
To: Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 bug: fifo-write causes diskwrites to read-only fs !
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:22:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED50C5C.9010309@vgertech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030528175842.GA13657@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>



Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It turns out that Linux is updating inode timestamps of fifos (named
> pipes) that are written to while residing on a read-only filesystem.
> It is not only updating in-ram info, but it will issue *physical*
> writes to the read-only fs on the disk !

Hi!

I can't give a solution but the workaround is obvious:
mount -t ramfs none /myFifos

Regards,
Nuno Silva




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-28 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-28 17:58 2.4 bug: fifo-write causes diskwrites to read-only fs ! Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-05-28 18:52 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-05-28 19:17   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-28 19:34     ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-05-28 20:22       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-28 20:52         ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2003-05-30 13:21           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-05-30 14:58             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-30 15:18               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-05-30 16:36                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-28 19:22 ` Nuno Silva [this message]
2003-05-28 19:37   ` Rob van Nieuwkerk

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