That is incorrect. I use loops all the time, and read/write is default for
root mounting. Which by the way, is the only user who can do that.(at
least on RH by default).
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
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On Sat, 26 May 2001, 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.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
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