On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:09:40PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: > But if the underlying device is marked ro, dm shouldn't update it at > all. The device should be opened ro and ro policy should be enforced. Indeed, but dm isn't tracking this today because it didn't need to up-to now. I can think of a few scenarios where dm can have the underlying device open read-write when it only needs read-only. (E.g. we track and cater for read-only->read-write transitions but not the opposite and don't propagate changes through the stack.) We'll do an audit... Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel