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: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:05:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e590510291005r2ddfca97n330a4d07d3cfde4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590510290902y2152f703t56d0cc688f3c64cb@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/29/05, Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com> wrote:
> The /only/ way I can see to "fix" this is to do a pointless open on
> the block device and see if that returns EROFS before allowing a
> remount. But I don't know what other hassle that will cause - I'll
> make the hack, but someone (Al?) who knows the code will need to
> comment because this might completely fuck up a lock somewhere.
Or change the policy for the underlying gendisk in floppy.c according
to what we find when we do an floppy_open on the device. Which is what
I'm looking at as a workaround.
Jon.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 17:05 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
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 [this message]
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