Re: [RFD] readonly/read-write semantics

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 06:29:33 EST


On 4 Sep 2001, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> On mar, 2001-09-04 at 12:28, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > > Sorry, I meant journal replaying ... AFAIK, this operation will
> write on
> > > the media even if mounted r/o.
> >
> > Ditto - NFS client has no idea of that operation.
>
> Another client mounting the same fs at the same time will have a rather
> weird idea of that operation.

"weird" == "no".

Client sees what nfsd does. And nfsd is an application, ferchrissake.
It's no different from "another process on server looks at the fs
at the same (what, BTW?) time".

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