On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > > tunefs changes the flag for the next mount, so doesn't take immediate > > effect. Once you've tunefs'd a read-only file system, you need to unmount > > and remount it -- for the file system root, this generally means > > rebooting. Just to confirm: you're running with GENERIC, or with a kernel > > Er, what is the mount(..., MNT_RELOAD ...) in tunefs for then? > Unmounting and remounting should not be necessary for any read-only file > system including "/". You can do the MNT_RELOAD from the command line > using mount -u if tunefs doesn't do it. > > I have some old fixes for tunefs which fix missing remounts as a side > effect. In -current, tunefs only detects mounted filesystems if they > are in fstab. It clobbers read-write mounted filesystems and fails to > remount read-only mounted file systems if they are not detected.
The problem is that some flags can't be changed via MNT_RELOAD and require a from-scratch mount. I'm hoping that with nmount(), we can get a little more expressive regarding what changes are (and aren't) allowed to flags. Right now there's some uncomfortable masking. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
