Re: 2.6.17-ck1: fcache problem...

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jun 27 2006 - 09:33:03 EST


On Tue, Jun 27 2006, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:10:33 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Cannot the code figure out this himself al let "mount -o remount,ro"
> > > work?
> >
> > It could be fixed up, yes, but for now you have to always pass the fdev
> > option for it to work. Sorry, I thought you knew that, I think I wrote
> > that in the original mail as well.
>
> No ;)
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/15/46
>
> you talked about remounting rw at boot (modifing distro script) and
> remounting for stopping priming.

I guess not, I've not noticed since my modified suse boot.rootfs script
use FCACHE_ARGS for both mount rw and remount ro. I does tell you to use
fdev for rw remounts though, so it's not like I didn't hint at it at
least :-)

> > But it needs to be fixed of course, also so you don't have to do it for
> > 'rw' remounts (which I sometimes do just to check stats).
>
> I agree :)

Will fix it up, for now just pass fdev= always.

--
Jens Axboe

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