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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
	Jean-Marc Saffroy <saffroy@ri.silicomp.fr>,
	Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] readonly/read-write semantics
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:03:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010904170322.B48@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <999595577.11178.3.camel@nomade> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109040612300.26423-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109040612300.26423-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:15:17AM -0400

Hi!

> > > Read-only is more complex - in addition to mount side ("does anyone want
> > > it to be r/w") there is a filesystem side ("does fs agree to be r/w")...
> > 
> > How about, say, a reiserfs mounted r/o on a shared partition (loopback
> > over nfs) ? If it contains errors, maybe 2 "clients" will attempt to
> > rollback at the same time. Is the solution to never mount, even r/o,
> > remote journalling fs ?
> 
> ??? Rollback is purely local thing, so NFS client doesn't matter at all.
> And nfsd is just an application running on server, whether it's a kernel
> thread or a normal process.

Notice he said *loopback* over nfs [i.e. mount /nfs/xyzzy -o loop,ro -t 
reiserfs]. Or think nbd.

And yes, being able to mount reiserfs without replaying log is usefull.

								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-04 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-31 23:35 Bryan Henderson
2001-09-01  4:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-01 14:42   ` Ingo Oeser
2001-09-01 16:44     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-01 17:13       ` Nicholas Knight
2001-09-04  2:07       ` Jean-Marc Saffroy
2001-09-04  4:09         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-04  9:26           ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-04 10:15             ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-04 10:20               ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-04 10:28                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-04 10:59                   ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-04 11:29                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-04 17:03               ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-09-04 16:58   ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-05  2:34 Bryan Henderson
2001-09-04 19:50 Bryan Henderson
2001-09-05  2:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-04 18:39 Bryan Henderson
2001-09-01  0:38 Bryan Henderson
2001-08-31 17:18 [Q] [VFS] NULL f_dentry for opened files ; possible race condition Jean-Marc Saffroy
2001-08-31 20:56 ` [RFD] readonly/read-write semantics Alexander Viro
2001-09-01 13:08   ` Juan Quintela
2001-09-04  1:16   ` Jean-Marc Saffroy

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