linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/1] PM: Adds remount fs ro at suspend

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Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:07:39 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, akuster@...sta.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] PM: Adds remount fs ro at suspend

On Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Why do you think remounting filesystems is necessary? Are you getting
> > problems with some particular filesystem?
> 
> No.  But anything in a removable device neets to be either remounted
> read-only or unmounted if that is at all possible, because the user could
> unplug it.  It is of course, sync'd anyway, so if the remount/umount fails,
> no corruption should happen...  but the fs will be dirty, etc.
> 
> It can get very ugly when you factor in docks and removable bays. It's not
> just USB/firewire mass-storage devices and memory cards.  And there is the
> patological cases where the user suspends with the device in one port, and
> resumes with the device in another port.
> 
> I feel userspace *can* do all that needs to be done, but we are (currently)
> very bad at it.

Agreed, but still I think that we should try to solve these problems in user
space and only _after_ it turns out to be impossible or too hard to do we can
start to implement such things on the kernel side.

Greetings,
Rafael
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