Re: Reasons to honor readonly mount requests

2001-02-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I understand that both ext3fs and > > reiserfs will try to fix corrupt filesystems (or at least filesystems > > with unprocessed log entries) in-place even if they're mounted > > read-only. Clearly, virtual replay means more work, but -- just for > > fun -- here are some cases in which i

Re: Reasons to honor readonly mount requests

2001-02-02 Thread Andreas Dilger
Jeff writes: > I understand that both ext3fs and > reiserfs will try to fix corrupt filesystems (or at least filesystems > with unprocessed log entries) in-place even if they're mounted > read-only. Clearly, virtual replay means more work, but -- just for > fun -- here are some cases in which it

Reasons to honor readonly mount requests

2001-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Keller
On Thu, Jan 04 2001 at 17:49:46 EST, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I will be adding support for virtual replay for root filesystems to > act as a last-chance way of recovering if you really cannot write to > the root, but journaling filesystems really do expect to be able to > write to the media