Re: mounting /usr read-only -- didn't this *used* to work?

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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Jacques B. wrote:

> On 10/21/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... blah blah about remounting /usr read-only ...

> Something I must try. Never tried the remount option.  Did you try
> an lsof to see if there are any open files from /usr for some reason
> as well as check the output of your ps for same?

there's no question that running "lsof" on the /usr filesystem is
going to give *tons* of output, since there's all sorts of things
open, like shared libraries and so on.  but, again, those should be
open for read only, so that shouldn't *technically* stop me from
remounting that way.

the question is -- is there something open in such a way as to prevent
that remounting; that is, is there anything running behind the scenes
that is *writing* to /usr without my explicit intervention?  if there
is, that would seem to be a violation of the FHS, which dictates that
/usr be explicitly static and only change based on operator
intervention.

so what might be running that is quietly updating something in /usr to
prevent that remount?  or is there another reason for this happening?

rday

p.s.  as i mentioned, the read-only remount works fine on separate
filesystems i have (/opt, /usr/local) that aren't doing anything at
the moment.
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