linux-kernel - Re: read-only partitions: does the policy apply to all metadata ?

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Message-ID: <31743.1236708523@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:08:43 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	porte64@...e.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: read-only partitions: does the policy apply to all metadata ?

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:34:37 -0000, Alan Cox said:

> Replay it to a snapshot backed by the r/o fs ...

Assuming you've got an LVM in place, and someplace to put the snapshot,
and all that.  It's certainly well outside what you'd *expect* to happen
if you do a 'mount -o ro' of an ext3 file system. ;)

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