Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:12:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > cramfs is a read-only fs. So we should honour that in inode->mode to > avoid confusion of programs.
No no no. This breaks device nodes etc quite badly.
A change to mkcramfs might be fine - but it has to conditionalize on the file being a regular file. Not a blanket "everything is read-only".
Linus
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