From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: Evgeny Stambulchik <Evgeny.Stambulchik@weizmann.ac.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:05:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e590510270805h1739b19chf0b719948aa6f4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4360C0A7.4050708@weizmann.ac.il>
On 10/27/05, Evgeny Stambulchik <Evgeny.Stambulchik@weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/floppy
> # echo $?
> 0
Oops. That looks like a bug.
> The bug is present in both 2.4 and 2.6, and is specific to floppy
> devices. Other RO media I tried (CDROM, RO-exported NFS) are partially
> OK, in the sense that a write attempt returns an error; however, "mount
> -o remount,rw" always returns success (this might be a bug in mount).
Interesting. If nobody else gets there first, I'll take a look.
Jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-27 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 11:57 Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-27 15:05 ` Jon Masters [this message]
2005-10-29 11:58 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-29 13:10 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-27 21:09 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 11:55 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-28 12:26 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 13:15 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-28 13:50 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-28 14:52 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-29 1:29 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-29 11:06 ` Evgeny Stambulchik
2005-10-29 16:02 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-29 17:05 ` Jon Masters
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