Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:34:14 +0000 | From | Roger Gammans <> | Subject | Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown? |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:02:49PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Right. There are two distinct meanings: > > 1) Do not write to this medium, ever (physical readonly); and > > 2) Do not allow modifications to the filesystem (logical readonly). > > The fact is that the kernel confuses the two, but that just isn't >[snip] > We just don't have a way of specifying these two things independently.
Is this call for a new mount option?, or should we just clutter /dev even further with devices with ro permissions as the marker.
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