On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 17:06 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Yeah, I don't know that this is true. It hasn't been true for over a > decade (2?), with the most widely-used filesystem in linux history, > i.e. > ext3. Based on what? I'd now many sysadmins who don't expect that e.g. the journal is replayed when ext* is mounted ro.
> So if btrfs wants to go on this re-education crusade, more power > to you, but I don't know that it's really a fight worth fighting. ;) I don't think there's a bight fight necessary, is it? Just properly document all options and not only from the developers or expert-users PoV. Using blockdev --setro is of course an alternative to a dedicated "hard-ro" option (or something similar that goes by a better name),... OTOH I don't think that having such an option would cause big problems or "religion wars" ;) Cheers, Chris.
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