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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:19:03 +0000 From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@...da.com> To: "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@....com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, sct@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 6/6] ext3: do not write to the disk when mounting a dirty read-only filesystem On 06/03/2008, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> wrote: > On Mar 06, 2008 01:59 +0000, Duane Griffin wrote: > > NOTE: For now I'm simply preventing filesystems requiring recovery from being > > remounted read-write. This breaks booting with an uncleanly mounted root > > filesystem! > > I was going to ask about this - not being able to remount rw is a serious > problem because many users have only the root filesystem and this > limitation basically prevents this patch from being landable. Yep, I agree. I wanted to post this as an RFC now to get feedback on the overall approach. I'll try and get remount support in there ASAP and post another version. > I'd suggest if the filesystem is going to be remounted read/write that > the journal mapping be discarded and the journal replayed. Depending > on how you do the mapping it may be necessary to invalidate all of the > pages in the cache so that they don't reference the blocks in the journal. That was along the lines I was thinking of, too. Thanks for mentioning invalidating the page cache -- I'll make sure that doesn't get overlooked. > Cheers, Andreas Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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