From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:01:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4671907F.5050706@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070610182746.GA4272@ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> Did this succeed? If the application is still
>>> truncating that file, the
>>> umount should have failed.
>> Actually, what I expect to happen is for the remount,ro
>> to block until the file deletion completes. But it
>> doesn't.
>>
>> Once a f/s is read-only, there should be NO writing to
>> it. Right?
>
> Linux happily writes to filesystems mounted read-only. It will replay
> journal on them.
That's a bug and needs fixed. Read only means read _only_.
And the question still remains; why is sync() not blocking until the
file has been completely unlinked and the disk is consistent?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-14 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 13:44 ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk Mark Lord
2007-06-07 15:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 16:01 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-07 17:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2007-06-10 18:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-12 15:15 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2007-06-14 19:01 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2007-06-07 16:11 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-07 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 21:38 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-07 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 14:51 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-09 2:58 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-11 11:14 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-11 22:47 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-12 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-07 21:43 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-10 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-11 11:05 ` Jan Kara
2007-06-11 22:46 ` Mark Lord
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