Re: [Win4Lin-users] Re: Comments From Linux Central (fwd)

[Henry Yen]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:38:10AM +0000, Larry Marshall wrote:
> > to mount it _readonly_, don't you have to override the default of _readwrite_?
> > 
> >    mount -o loop,ro isofilename mount_point_directory
> 
> Nope.  Think about it.  When mounting an iso file, all the files in
> the mounted file system are part of a file, not a bunch of individual
> files.  Linux knows this and mounts it read-only.

loop filesystems are not default readonly, although i'm assuming
you're correct about iso9660 filesystems (never having used one myself).

how about a better example, then.  either the "ro" flag, or:

   mount -oloop -tiso9660 isofilename mount_point_directory

(to make sure the user will force read-only either because he specifies
 it, or the kernel verifies that it's iso9660 and therefore readonly-only.)

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Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York
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