From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spragg Subject: Re: Thoughts on mounting the rootfs from a udev rule Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:46:10 +0000 Message-ID: <49C69582.3040004@spra.gg> References: <1237496785.5070.28.camel@sentry-no.fnordovax.org> <49C35EC6.2050405@bfh.ch> <1237541365.5070.64.camel@sentry-no.fnordovax.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1237541365.5070.64.camel-76q0VzFBGGr21HsLBtNmTckMGDeJXHgy@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Victor Lowther Cc: Seewer Philippe , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Victor Lowther wrote: > If you mount an ext3 filesystem it replays the journal whether or not > you mount it read-only. According to the documentation patch at: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/940/ you can mount ext3 as ro,noload which will not replay the journal. Although those emails are dated Jan 2009, I'm not sure how old that actual feature is, or what kernels it might be in. Adam -- The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html