On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 06:27:48PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote:
| > >Which is why the current way to remove softdep from a filesystem is a
| > >rw+softdep -> ro -> rw transition, which would no longer work with your
| > >diff.
| >
| > It would work, but you'd have to explicitly disable softdep, as one might
| > expect to be required when removing softdep:
|
| Oh, indeed.
|
| Then it's a matter of deciding whether we want mount -u to simply update
| flags (and then only toggle ro/rw, and leave softdep unchanged) or to
| update behaviour (and then clear softdep on rw->ro transition as softdep
| do not apply to read-only filesystems). You're in favour of the former,
| I am in favour of the latter. Who wants to be the referee?
I hardly qualify as a referee but I'll add that I think Boudewijn's
approach makes more sense to me. Even though I quite often use
-ur/-uw to drop softdep from filesystems. Especially given
Boudewijn's point that putting ro,softdep in fstab results in a
filesystem that would get (still have) softdep after -uw.
I don't have very strong feelings on the matter (but, yes, strong
enough to write this e-mail ;)
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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