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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:07:05 -0500
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On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:04 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   But once you have MS_RDONLY set, there should be no modifications of
> the underlying filesystem, should they? And I have understood that the
> only problem is modifying the filesystem underneath unionfs. But maybe
> I'm missing something.

Remote filesystems. The MS_RDONLY bit on your client means bugger all to
the server and all the other clients.

Trond