linux-ext4 - Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

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Message-ID: <20070409000556.GA13980@implementation>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:05:56 +0200
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

Hi,

Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited
grub menu.  Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only
mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery).
This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage data.  XFS has a
norecovery option that allows to disable that, I'd say ext3/4 should
have it too.

Samuel
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