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DateFri, 28 Oct 2005 13:55:28 +0200
FromEvgeny Stambulchik <>
SubjectRe: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy
Rob Landley wrote:

> But no, this one's clearly a kernel error.  If the kernel is giving write 
> errors against the device afterwards, than the kernel's internal state 
> toggled successfully, which is all the mount syscall was trying to do.  Mount 
> is just reporting whether or not the syscall succeeded, not whether or not it 
> should have. :)

OK, so there are actually two separate bugs, it seems: one that 
remounting a RO media in the RW mode succeeds (this "works" for any RO 
media, as far as I can tell) and the second (this one is specific to the 
floppy driver only) that a further write to such a falsely rw-remounted 
media doesn't return (in the user space) an error.

Regards,

Evgeny
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