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SubjectRe: [PATCH 20/20] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time
Quoting Herbert Poetzl (herbert@13thfloor.at):
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:19:35AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > >
> > > Originally from: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
> > >
> > > This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set.
> > >
> > > Note that this does _not_ add a "ro" option directly to
> > > the bind mount operation. If you require such a mount,
> > > you must first do the bind, then follow it up with a
> > > 'mount -o remount,ro' operation.
> >
> > I guess the fundamental problem I have with that approach is that it's
> > a cop-out - we just declare rw state of vfsmount independent from that
> > of filesystem and add a "if a flag is set, act upon vfsmount".
>
> IMHO the read only check has to be done twice, i.e
> once for the superblock and a second time for the
> particular vfs mount, similar, the procfs mounts
> entry shows the combination (logical and) of the
> write ability ...

Shouldn't the vfsmount rw flag being set imply superblock rw?

-serge
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