Re: 2.6.17-ck1: fcache problem...

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jun 27 2006, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:10:33 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Cannot the code figure out this himself al let "mount -o remount,ro"
> > > work?
> > 
> > It could be fixed up, yes, but for now you have to always pass the fdev
> > option for it to work. Sorry, I thought you knew that, I think I wrote
> > that in the original mail as well.
> 
> No ;)
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/15/46
> 
> you talked about remounting rw at boot (modifing distro script) and
> remounting for stopping priming.

I guess not, I've not noticed since my modified suse boot.rootfs script
use FCACHE_ARGS for both mount rw and remount ro. I does tell you to use
fdev for rw remounts though, so it's not like I didn't hint at it at
least :-)

> > But it needs to be fixed of course, also so you don't have to do it for
> > 'rw' remounts (which I sometimes do just to check stats).
> 
> I agree :)

Will fix it up, for now just pass fdev= always.

-- 
Jens Axboe