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Message-ID: <20070610182746.GA4272@ucw.cz>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:27:47 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk
Hi!
> >Did this succeed? If the application is still
> >truncating that file, the
> >umount should have failed.
>
> Actually, what I expect to happen is for the remount,ro
> to block until the file deletion completes. But it
> doesn't.
>
> Once a f/s is read-only, there should be NO writing to
> it. Right?
Linux happily writes to filesystems mounted read-only. It will replay
journal on them.
Pavel
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