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To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] nfs client: Read-only file system (2.6.19-rc1,2)
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:44:17PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >I'll bet that you have always had a subdirectory of the exact same
> >filesystem mounted somewhere else ro, right?
> 
> Yup, exactly: /usr -ro and /home -rw on the same (hda3) partition.

Just out of curiosity--why are you doing that?

On the linux server, at least, that doesn't really prevent writing to
/usr unless you've also turned on subtree checking.  And subtree
checking causes other problems.

--b.