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Re: kern/30525: remounting ffs read-only (mount -ur) does not sync metadata



The following reply was made to PR kern/30525; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/30525: remounting ffs read-only (mount -ur) does not sync
 metadata
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:06:54 +0000

 On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:45:02AM +0000, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
  > Does this bug impact filesystems mounted with option "sync"?  If not, could
  > remounting read-only be allowed again for synchronous mounts?
  >
  > (this is what I use on my Soekris router with root filesystem on a CF disk.)
 
 That's a good question... but given that part of the problem is that
 some of the metadata doesn't get synced because it isn't kept in the
 buffer cache, I wouldn't really be inclined to trust it.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 


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