On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:04:11PM +0000, Joachim Wagner wrote:
> Current man page:
>
> -r Mount the file system read-only. A synonym is -o ro.
>
> Proposed change:
>
> -r Mount the file system read-only. A synonym is -o ro. Note that,
> depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior,
> the system may still write to the device. For example, Ext3
> will replay its journal if the filesystem is dirty. To prevent
> this kind of write access, you may want to map the device
> through a read-only loop device, see command losetup.
Applied, thanks.
Karel
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