Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

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Eric Sandeen wrote:
It means the filesystem should not be writeable when it is mounted.
This is not the same as saying that the filesystem itself should do no
IO in the course of making that read-only mount available.

I disagree.

I respectfully disagree, see above.

Based on what? I argue that historically the primary use of the read only mount flag was to prevent the underlying filesystem from being modified and possibly damaged further before it can be fsck'ed. It became common practice to mount the root filesystem read only and run a fsck on it, then either reboot or remount read-write depending on if fsck had to make changes.

In this context, the meaning of the read only mount flag was clear: do not write to the disk. If you wish to redefine it as "do not allow me write access to any files" then you fly in the face of convention, and the onus is on you to provide a compelling argument to make such a change.

In that case you are mounting the same filesystem uner 2 different
operating systems simultaneously, which is, and always has been, a
recipe for disaster.  Flagging the fs as "mounted already" would
probably be a better solution, though it's harder than it sounds at
first glance.

No, it has not been. Prior to poorly behaved journal playback, it was perfectly safe to mount a filesystem read only even if it was mounted read-write by another system ( possibly fsck or defrag ). You might not read the correct data from it, but you would not damage the underlying data simply by mounting it read-only.

Under all conditions it should be safe to mount a read-only block
device, but that is not the same as mounting a filesystem read-only.

Historically it was the same thing. I see no reason to change that behavior, do you?


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