Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:39:04 +0000 | From | Alasdair G Kergon <> | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] dm: Do not open log and cow device read-write for read-only mappings |
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:09:40PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: > But if the underlying device is marked ro, dm shouldn't update it at > all. The device should be opened ro and ro policy should be enforced.
Indeed, but dm isn't tracking this today because it didn't need to up-to now.
I can think of a few scenarios where dm can have the underlying device open read-write when it only needs read-only. (E.g. we track and cater for read-only->read-write transitions but not the opposite and don't propagate changes through the stack.)
We'll do an audit...
Alasdair
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