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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/22] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:02 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0702101051440.1119@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209152219.fa61d152.akpm@linux-foundation.org>


On Feb 9 2007 15:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
>On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:44 -0800
>Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set.
>
>Who wants read-only bind mounts, and for what reason?

And another case could be, that some application modifies ~/.xyz, but the user
(with root's help) does not want that:

  mount --bind -r ~/.xyz ~/.xyz

chmoding out the w bits does not always work, as programs might tamper with the
permissions of ~/.xyz itself... so a ro mount seems to be best.


Jan
-- 
ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-10  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09 22:53 [PATCH 01/22] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 02/22] r/o bind mounts: add vfsmount writer counts Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 23:41   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-02-10  0:10     ` Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 03/22] record when sb_writer_count elevated for inode Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 04/22] elevate writer count for chown and friends Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 05/22] elevate mnt writers for callers of vfs_mkdir() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 06/22] elevate write count during entire ncp_ioctl() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 07/22] elevate write count for link and symlink calls Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 08/22] elevate mount count for extended attributes Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 09/22] mount_is_safe(): add comment Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 10/22] unix_find_other() elevate write count for touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 12/22] elevate write count files are open()ed Dave Hansen
2007-02-13  5:11   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-13 16:58     ` Dave Hansen
2007-02-13 17:58       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-14  0:17         ` Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 11/22] elevate write count over calls to vfs_rename() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 13/22] elevate writer count for do_sys_truncate() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 14/22] elevate write count for do_utimes() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 15/22] elevate write count for do_sys_utime() and touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 16/22] sys_mknodat(): elevate write count for vfs_mknod/create() Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 17/22] elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 18/22] do_rmdir(): elevate write count Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 19/22] elevate writer count for custom struct_file Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 20/22] [PATCH] gfs: check nlink count Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 21/22] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 23:22   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-10  0:00     ` Dave Hansen
2007-02-10  0:29     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-02-10  9:54     ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2007-02-09 22:53 ` [PATCH 22/22] kill open files traverse on remount ro Dave Hansen
2007-02-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 01/22] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Andrew Morton

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