Re: Q. block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get()

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:19:39PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> 
> By the commit 75f1dc0
> 	2010-11-13 block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get()
> bdev_read_only() call is added into blkdev_get().
> 
> This check makes the loopback block device unable to be mounted as
> writable once it is set to readonly, even if the corresponding is
> detached and the device becomes free.
> We may need to re-initialize the readonly/writable status flag somewhere?

Yeah, it should definitely reset r/w flag on each mount.  Interested
in fixing it?

Thanks.

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tejun
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