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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Introduce new mount option to disable tree log replay
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:58:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151216135840.GS4227@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5670C017.5010104@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 09:36:23AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >
> >   mount -o ro,nowr /dev/sdx /mnt
> >
> > would work when switching kernels.
> >
> That would be nice.
> 
> I'd like to forward the idea/discussion to filesystem ml, not only btrfs 
> maillist.

Good idea.

> Such behavior should better be coordinated between all(at least xfs and 
> ext4 and btrfs) filesystems.
> 
> One sad example is, we can't use 'norecovery' mount option to disable 
> log replay in btrfs, as there is 'recovery' mount option already.

I think we should pick a name that's not tied to the implementation how
the potential writes could happen under a RO mount.
Recovery/replay/whatever, the expected use is "avoid any writes".

> So I hope we can have a unified mount option between mainline filesystems.

That would be a good thing indeed.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-16 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10  2:34 [PATCH v3] btrfs: Introduce new mount option to disable tree log replay Qu Wenruo
2015-12-14 17:32 ` David Sterba
2015-12-14 17:50   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-14 19:16     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-14 19:33       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-14 19:44         ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-14 20:20           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-14 23:34             ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-15 13:31               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-16 13:53     ` David Sterba
2015-12-14 19:11   ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-16  1:36   ` Qu Wenruo
2015-12-16  2:13     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-16 11:10     ` Duncan
2015-12-16 11:45       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-17  1:09         ` Duncan
2015-12-17  1:46           ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-16 12:12       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-16 12:34         ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-16 12:57           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2015-12-16 13:01             ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2015-12-16 13:58     ` David Sterba [this message]

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