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Subject: Re: Readonly mounted ext2 filesystem partition changeable: Bug or
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csg wrote:
> [PLEASE copy any answer to this posting to
>    chr@abelard.de
> Thanks.]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Short: I have seen changes made to a readonly mounted ext2 filesystem by
> communicating with /sbin/init via /dev/initctl. This strange behaviour
> goes away while moving /dev into RAM by using DEVFS.
> 
> In my opinion this is a bug. Or is it a feature?

A bug that is already fixed:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105414508000003&r=1&w=2

Pádraig.