From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422751AbWJRSMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422750AbWJRSMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:43 -0400 Received: from av2.karneval.cz ([81.27.192.122]:12860 "EHLO av2.karneval.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422751AbWJRSMm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:12:42 -0400 Message-ID: <45366D12.3070200@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:06:10 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0a1 (X11/20060724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Bruce Fields" CC: Trond Myklebust , Sven Hoexter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] nfs client: Read-only file system (2.6.19-rc1,2) References: <4534F59D.4040505@gmail.com> <1161104051.5559.5.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4535EB4F.4070406@gmail.com> <45364C51.2000004@gmail.com> <1161192121.6095.58.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <453667F1.4040504@gmail.com> <20061018180233.GF5374@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20061018180233.GF5374@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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? Not me :). I do not admin that machine. > 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. thanks, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E