From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs tries to write on readonly device on unmount
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:19:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090721111909.GA29399@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2009-07-21T12-28-50@devnull.michael-prokop.at>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This issue might be related to
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=413
>
> A XFS partition is set to read-only mode (using 'blockdev --setro')
> and mounted. As soon as I *un*mount the filesystem there seem to
> happen write requests.
>
> I've a Tableau Forensic Bridge? which avoids the write requests and
> attached it to a Linux live-system running kernel 2.6.28 inside
> VMware and Virtualbox. I can easily reproduce the problem.
Block 0 is the superblock, so it appears like there is a superblock
write somewhere not guarded by an read-only check. Can you still
reproduce this with a current kernel? We now do have a testcase in
xfsqa (test 200) that checks exactly that scenario, but it doesn't
show issues on recent kernels.
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2009-07-21 10:51 xfs tries to write on readonly device on unmount Michael Prokop
2009-07-21 11:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-07-22 11:27 ` Michael Prokop
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