> Can you elaborate why mounting a filesystem read-only > is "dangerous"? You will be interpreting the filesystem based on a mix of current and stale metadata. There is no way you can be sure what will happen in this case. Metadata may be read as data or vice versa, pieces of one file may be read as pieces of another one. DS _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users