The following reply was made to PR kern/50707; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/50707: rm: fts_read: No such file or directory
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 03:40:41 +0000
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:40:01PM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
> I have a patch you can apply that will allow switching to
> read-only mode, but you do need to be very careful - the ability to
> do that was removed because it does not always work correctly, to
> switch to read-only mode takes some care to make sure the
> filesystem is in a suitable state first (the system should simply
> make it work, but no-one ever found out why it didn't.)
Well, that's not quite true. We found one at least one set of
problems, which is that the logic for delayed mtime/atime updates was
not pushing pending mtime/atime updates out. That I believe has been
fixed.
There was also another set of problems that came to light when someone
discovered that -o async wasn't ever writing anything out at all
unless forced to by buffer cache capacity, but I don't remember what
the resolution of that was, if any.
--
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost