On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:08 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > I'm looking at how installs from local hard disk are handled (looking at > the FC rawhide anaconda). It looks like the mount is done as ext2 or > vfat, read-only in either case. Does ext2 read-only mean _really_ > read-only? Is it safe to use a partition that is really half of a Linux > software RAID mirror (without causing the mirror to get out of sync)? Yes -- but keep in mind that you can't really mount a modern ext3 filesystem as ext2 anyway. -- Peter