Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:27:47 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ext3fs: umount+sync not enough to guarantee metadata-on-disk |
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Hi!
> >Did this succeed? If the application is still > >truncating that file, the > >umount should have failed. > > Actually, what I expect to happen is for the remount,ro > to block until the file deletion completes. But it > doesn't. > > Once a f/s is read-only, there should be NO writing to > it. Right?
Linux happily writes to filesystems mounted read-only. It will replay journal on them.
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