Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

[Roger Gammans]

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.

TTFN
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Roger
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