linux-kernel - Re: XFS noikeep remount in 2.6.27-rc1-next-20080730

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Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:31:33 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@...ton.co.nz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS noikeep remount in 2.6.27-rc1-next-20080730

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 05:30:33PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> > I mount a bunch of XFS filesystems with "noikeep,attr2,noatime", and a
> > couple also with "ro".
> > 
> > Sometimes I want to remount one of the "ro" ones "rw", to make changes.
> > This doesn't work anymore in 2.6.27-rc1-next-20080730. The last kernel I
> > tried which it worked in was 2.6.26 release.
> > 
> > luna ~ # mount -o remount,rw /usr
> > mount: /usr not mounted already, or bad option
> > 
> > luna ~ # dmesg | tail -n 1
> > [18702.291344] XFS: mount option "noikeep" not supported for remount
> > 
> > Is this intended behaviour?
> 
> Side effect of this commit:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xfs/xfs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0327f9d799ebb96f67c80dd732b1fdb09527365e
> 
> Christoph?

I'ts most likely a fallout, but I wonder why.  To get this behaviour
moutn would have to add all the options it finds in /proc/self/mounts
to the command line.

Added the util-linux-ng list to shed some light on this, but I suspect
I'll have to change xfs_fs_remount to check if the option passed in
is identical to the one we already have and only reject it when it
changes due to this mount(1) dumbness.
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