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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: r-o bind in nfsd
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:08:01 -0700
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On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 19:52 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Traditionally we have syscalls, and nfsd.  Both of them want the
> security checks, and I think nfsd wants the read-only mount checking
> as well, but I'm not entirely sure.  Maybe we can handle that by just
> making nfsd acquire a write-ref on the mount and keep it while it's
> exported.

The only question for me would be where the current r/o checks are
happening (IS_RDONLY()).  I generally based my patches on replacing
those calls.  

-- Dave