linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: ignore error on forced remount

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Message-ID: <20110803104914.GA32126@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Aug 2011 06:49:14 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, hch@...radead.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, toshi.okajima@...fujitsu.com,
	mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: ignore error on forced remount

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:48:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> 
> On emergency remount we want to force MS_RDONLY on the super block
> even if ->remount_fs() failed for some reason.

Eww, dangerous territory.  At the very least we should log something
in the kernel log for thise case.

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