Re: PATCH: fix-readonly-policy-use-and-floppy-ro-rw-status

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:40:28PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> And as I said, the situation as it stands leads to potential data
> corruption but I agree with you - we need a VFS callback to handle
> readwrite/readonly change on remount I think. Comments?

It's not that simple.  Filesystem side of ro/rw transitions is
messy as hell and no, "VFS callback" won't be enough.
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