On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:04:33PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Hi Christoph! > > > - If BLKROSET is used to set a whole-disk device read-only, any > > partitions will end up in a read-only state until the user > > explicitly clears the flag. > > This no longer appears to be the case with your tweak. True. > > It's very common for database folks to twiddle the read-only state of > block devices and partitions. I know that our users will find it very > counter-intuitive that setting /dev/sda read-only won't prevent writes > to /dev/sda1. What I'm worried about it is that this would be a huge change from the historic behavior.
