Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Did this succeed?  If the application is still 
> >truncating that file, the
> >umount should have failed.
> 
> Actually, what I expect to happen is for the remount,ro
> to block  until the file deletion completes.  But it 
> doesn't.
> 
> Once a f/s is read-only, there should be NO writing to 
> it.  Right?

Linux happily writes to filesystems mounted read-only. It will replay
journal on them.

							Pavel
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