Re: UDF filesystem image with Write-Once UDF Access Type

[Jan Kara]

Hello!

On Fri 12-07-19 12:02:24, Pali Rohár  wrote:
> I had discussion with Roald and based on his tests, Linux kernel udf.ko
> driver mounts UDF filesystem image with Write-Once UDF Access Type as
> normal read/write filesystem.
>
> I think this is a bug as Write-Once Access Type is defined that existing
> blocks on filesystem cannot be rewritten. Only new blocks can be
> appended after end of device. Basically it means special HW support from
> underlying media, e.g. for optical medias packet-writing technique (or
> ability to burn new session) and CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN ioctl to locate
> "current" end of device.
> 
> In my opinion without support for additional layer, kernel should treat
> UDF Write-Once Access Type as read-only mount for userspace. And not
> classic read/write mount.
> 
> If you want to play with Write-Once Access Type, use recent version of
> mkudffs and choose --media-type=cdr option, which generates UDF
> filesystem suitable for CD-R (Write-Once Access Type with VAT and other
> UDF options according to UDF specification).

Reasonably recent kernels should have this bug fixed and mount such fs read
only. That being said I've tested current upstream kernel with a media
created with --media-type=cdr and mounting failed with:

UDF-fs: error (device ubdb): udf_read_inode: (ino 524287) failed !bh
UDF-fs: error (device ubdb): udf_read_inode: (ino 524286) failed !bh
UDF-fs: error (device ubdb): udf_read_inode: (ino 524285) failed !bh
UDF-fs: error (device ubdb): udf_read_inode: (ino 524284) failed !bh
UDF-fs: Scanning with blocksize 2048 failed

So there's something fishy either in the created image or the kernel...
Didn't debug this further yet.

> Also in git master of udftools has mkduffs now new option --read-only
> which creates UDF image with Read-Only Access Type.

I've tested this and the kernel properly mounts the image read-only.

> It seems that udf.ko does not support updating VAT table, so probably it
> should treat also filesystem with VAT as read-only too.

This is definitely handled properly and we mount such fs read-only as well.

									Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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