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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Duane Griffin" <duaneg@dghda.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	"Martin MOKREJŠ" <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>,
	"kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:22:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901042122.35828.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901042015230.31141@anakin>

On Sunday 04 January 2009 13:21:06 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I think most people get shocked when they discover that mounting something
> read-only may actualy write to the media. This is a bit unexpected (hey, if
> I mount `read-only', I expect that no writes will happen), as it behaved
> differently before the introduction of journalling.

Is this an unreasonable use case:

  kill -STOP $(pidof qemu)
  mount -o loop,ro hdb.img blah
  cp blah/thingy thingy
  umount blah
  kill -CONT $(pidof qemu)

Currently, if your loopback mount is -t ext3 it'll write to the block device, 
and if your mount is -t ext2 it'll refuse to work on an unclean ext3 
filesystem, even if it's read only.  (But it _will_ work on an unclean ext2 
filesystem.)

My theory when I first found out about this was "the filesystem developers 
hate me personally".

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-03 12:38 document ext3 requirements Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 21:17 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 22:06   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 22:17   ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 22:29     ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-03 23:01       ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:38         ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-03 23:50           ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-03 23:58             ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-04  0:08               ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04 21:49               ` Ingo Oeser
2009-01-04  0:00             ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04  0:11               ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04  0:41                 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04  3:52                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 14:24                     ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 18:40                       ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:21                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-01-04 19:36                           ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 19:51                             ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 21:55                               ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:06                                 ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-04 22:42                           ` Bron Gondwana
2009-01-05  3:22                           ` Rob Landley [this message]
2009-01-04  0:19         ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  2:55           ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 19:56         ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 19:16           ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 19:20             ` Rob Landley
2009-01-06 10:08         ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-06 15:23           ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-03 23:12       ` Duane Griffin
2009-01-06 10:06       ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-04  2:32 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:33   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 22:34   ` [patch] document ext3 a bit better Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 14:57     ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06  9:21       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-09 23:24         ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-09 23:36           ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-09 23:47             ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-04 13:35 ` document ext3 requirements Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-04 13:53   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-04 18:21   ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-04 18:38   ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:37     ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:58       ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-05 11:43     ` Alan Cox
2009-01-07 11:59       ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 20:10   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 19:49 ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:06   ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:25     ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:00     ` [patch] " Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  2:42       ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05  9:54         ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:07     ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  1:38     ` Rob Landley
2009-01-04 22:55   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  0:16     ` david
2009-01-05  9:38       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  1:50     ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05  3:20     ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05  9:45       ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 11:28         ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 19:15         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05 20:19           ` Theodore Tso
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2009-01-04 19:08           ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-04 19:31             ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-04 22:40               ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 23:30                 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-05  3:49                   ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05  4:31                     ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-05  5:00                     ` david
2009-01-05 11:19                     ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 19:00                       ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05 19:27                         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-06 10:41                           ` Matthias Andree
2009-01-06 15:30                             ` Theodore Tso
     [not found]                             ` <20090106153020.GB13086__11022.1833143898$1231255950$gmane$org@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 15:40                               ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 15:57                                 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-06 17:31                                   ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-06 19:31                                   ` Rob Landley
2009-01-27 13:24                       ` Thierry Vignaud
2009-01-27 13:37                         ` Alan Cox
2009-01-06 10:36                     ` Matthias Andree
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2009-01-04 23:13     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-05  2:51       ` Rob Landley
2009-01-05  3:33         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05  4:02         ` david
2009-01-05  3:52           ` Rob Landley
     [not found]     ` <fa.GBkQuKdRj+YRVczlNLFhGvaw3WY@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.rCyCghh/+staAmYi/+gwYvefIS0@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.c5j7jAMUnJPvgI9Oj/VczSDNakE@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]           ` <fa.377DMq2lPMyaHxadPnApFSJFoCg@ifi.uio.no>
2009-01-05 20:36             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-05 23:09               ` Theodore Tso
     [not found]     ` <fa.ucJLoSQwk9OAj6T6x60tbWaiTAo@ifi.uio.no>
2009-01-05 22:25       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-06  4:08         ` Rob Landley

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