linux-ext4 - Re: [ext3] Changes to block device after an ext3 mount point has been remounted readonly

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Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:38:15 +0100
From:	Camille Moncelier <pix@...life.org>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ext3] Changes to block device after an ext3 mount point has been 
	remounted readonly

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> wrote:

> Are you sure this isn't because e2fsck has been run at boot time and changed
> e.g. the "last checked" timestamp in the superblock?
>
No, I replaced /sbin/init by something which compute the sha1sum of
the root partition, display it then call /sbin/init and I can see that
the hash has changed after mount -o remount,ro.

As little as I understand, I managed to make a diff between two
hexdump of small images where changes happened after I created a file
and remounted the fs ro and it seems that, the driver didn't wrote
changes to the disk until unmount  ( The hexdump clearly shows that
/lost+found and /test file has been written after the umount )

workaround: Is there some knob in /proc or /sys which can trigger all
pending changes to disk ? ( Like /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches but for
filesystems ? )
>> This only happen when the rootfs hash been mounted ro, then remounted
>> rw to make some changes and remounted ro.
>> On the next reboot the hash will change, but only one time. Next
>> reboots will not alter the control sum, until of course I remount it
>> RW.
>
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
>



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