Eric Sandeen wrote:
It means the filesystem should not be writeable when it is mounted.
This is not the same as saying that the filesystem itself should do no
IO in the course of making that read-only mount available.
I disagree.
I respectfully disagree, see above.
Based on what? I argue
Eric Sandeen wrote:
except in the case of a journaling filesystem, where the journal in
theory obviates the need for a fsck. (yes, I know... fsck still has a
place...) But, fsck is largely meaningless until the journal has been
recovered anyway (fs can only be consistent if it includes
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hi,
Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited
grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only
mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery).
This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage
