Re: can't mount XFS from a read-only device

Emmanuel Florac
2009-10-09T19:21:41Z

Le Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:59:13 -0500 vous écriviez:

> try mount -o norecovery (and maybe -o nobarrier)

Thank you, that worked.

I can't help but think that when given the "ro" option, XFS shouldn't
try to write a single bit to the underlying device, or else what's the
point?