Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4 bug: fifo-write causes diskwrites to read-only fs ! | Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 21:37:07 +0200 | From | Rob van Nieuwkerk <> |
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> > > Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It turns out that Linux is updating inode timestamps of fifos (named > > pipes) that are written to while residing on a read-only filesystem. > > It is not only updating in-ram info, but it will issue *physical* > > writes to the read-only fs on the disk ! > > Hi! > > I can't give a solution but the workaround is obvious: > mount -t ramfs none /myFifos
Hi Nuno,
Yup, already thought of that. But would be nice if the bug was fixed too !
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