linux-kernel - Re: Do not reset xfsquota flags on quotaless ro mount

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181547090.32270@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:49:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
cc:	xfs@....sgi.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Do not reset xfsquota flags on quotaless ro mount


On Dec 19 2007 01:38, David Chinner wrote:
>> 
>> In https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345338 it is
>> claimed that resetting the quota flags in the mounting sequence
>> rw,ro,rw is a bug, but I would say this is not the case,
>
>You mounted without quotas in the middle step, thereby invalidating
>them.
>
That's clear to me, but according to the commenter, the filesystem is
in read-only mode (that is, if no recovery was necessary for the ro
mount), hence they should not be invalidated as they cannot change
anyway. Or can they?

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