From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: porte64@free.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: read-only partitions: does the policy apply to all metadata ?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:22:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29610.1236705759@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:26:44 BST." <355270241.1702481236702404399.JavaMail.root@spooler8-g27.priv.proxad.net>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:26:44 BST, porte64@free.fr said:
> When a partition is mounted as read-only, does the kernel
> really prevent ANY byte to be written to it, including
> any metadata ?
It's very hard to come up with a workable way to do a true read-only
mount of a journaled filesystem such as ext3 - what do you do if there's
anything in the journal that needs to be replayed?
Your best bet is to not worry about the filesystem, and look at flagging the
underlying block device as read-only.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-10 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 16:26 porte64
2009-03-10 17:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-03-10 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-10 18:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-03-15 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-10 23:33 ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-12 8:55 ` porte64
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