On Thursday June 29, davidsen@xxxxxxx wrote: > Why should this trickery be needed? When an array is mounted r/o it > should be clean. How can it be dirty. I assume readonly implies noatime, > I mount physically readonly devices without explicitly saying noatime > and nothing whines. The 'filesystem' is mounted r/o. The 'array' is not read-only, and you cannot set an array to read-only while a filesystem is mounted (because the array cannot tell that the mount is read-only). A little while after the last write, an array will mark itself as clean. The effect of the 'kill -9', is to reduce this 'little while' to 0. So remount readonly wait a little while kill machine would work too. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
