On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:44:47AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:43:25PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > -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.
>
> No need to use a loop device, just do a blockdev --setro.
Ahhh, BLKROSET ioctl... and blockdev(8) from util-linux... :-) Fixed. Sorry.
Karel
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