From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Subject: Re: fast fsck ... Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 18:51:20 GMT
In article <191.2BC72D69@purplet.demon.co.uk> jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes:
>* In message <SCT.93Apr7212858@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Stephen Tweedie said:
>
>ST> > Does Linux fsck support checking for stable/clean filesystems? In
>
>ST> However, if an e2fs filesystem is clean when it is mounted, then the
>ST> clean flag _will_ be set again upon successful unmounting of
>ST> the filesystem,
>
>Does it (or could it) also set the clean flag if the filesystem is remounted
>read only? Then shutdown etc. could do killall, sync, remount readonly to
>lock things down?
No, it can't. The remount call is handled by the VFS layer and the
ext 2 fs code does not even know that a fs has been remounted readonly.
>
> Mike
>
Remy