Re: Ideas on unified real-ro mount option across all filesystems

Carlos E. R.
2015-12-17T14:58:33Z

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On 2015-12-17 04:26, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 09:15:59PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:

>> I have always interpreted it as simply "no user changes to the
>> filesystem," and that is clearly what the vfs does with the
>> flag...
>
> That ("-o ro means no user changes") has always been my
> understanding too. You /want/ the FS to replay the journal on an
> RO mount so that regular FS operation picks up the committed
> transactions.
>
> --D

That's my understanding, too, but after some point in time, not
initially. It was explained to me some years ago after I found out
that a disk image mounted read only was modified. The trick was to
make the image '-w'.

I also have the vague feeling that once (years ago) I found a problem
when a mount failed or crashed when the image was ro.

Just a user view on this :-)

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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