2009/1/4 Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> As for mounting the root file system read-only during early boot up, and >> remounting it read-write later, I guess it's quite complicated to replay the >> journal (in RAM) on read-only mount, and deferring the replay writeback until >> remounting read-write? > > It's not *that* hard; if someone would like to cons up a patch, please > feel free.... but it's certainly not a high priority for me or most > of the other ext3 filesystem developers. If anyone is interested I'd be happy to dust off and send them my old patches to implement this. There are a couple of issues with it. First, I never got around to implementing remount R/W support. Second, I had to introduce a rather nasty hack in order to handle un-escaping JFS magic numbers. > - Ted Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
