Re: [RFD] readonly/read-write semantics

From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 04:26:16 EST


On mar, 2001-09-04 at 06:09, Alexander Viro wrote:

> Read-only is more complex - in addition to mount side ("does anyone want
> it to be r/w") there is a filesystem side ("does fs agree to be r/w")...

How about, say, a reiserfs mounted r/o on a shared partition (loopback
over nfs) ? If it contains errors, maybe 2 "clients" will attempt to
rollback at the same time. Is the solution to never mount, even r/o,
remote journalling fs ?

        Xav
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