From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:02:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:02:36 -0400 Received: from [203.12.97.41] ([203.12.97.41]:45585 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:02:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6EEB04.D75CF1B6@zip.com.au> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 12:07:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kieu CC: kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.7-ac7 ext3: Can I remount and change mount option ? In-Reply-To: <20010806062455.44858.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steve Kieu wrote: > > Hi, > > I still can not remount my ext3 root partition to > change to the data=writeback mode using 2.4.7-ac7 . > And any other partition too. This is not possible - you must unmount to change the data journalling mode. > >From alan post... > > Don't refuse unneccessarily on remount with (Petr > Vandrovec) > data= option with ext3 > > it means that I can do a remount an already mounted > ext3 FS and change the data mode? No, this refers to a problem where mount foo -o data=journal would succeed, but then mount foo -o remount,data=journal would fail. We now allow remount to specify the journalling mode, but it must be the same as the current mode - this change is just to allow us to work more nicely with the mount tools. -