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Message-Id: <1181661358.18067.28.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:15:58 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@...hat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk
Hi,
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:27 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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.
Only at mount time, not on unmount; and it does check whether the
underlying device is truly readonly or not first (assuming
bdev_read_only() is working on the device in question.)
--Stephen
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