FFS writes to read-only mount

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Mar 15 22:36:42 UTC 2007


On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:33:24AM +1000, David Cecil wrote:

> It may be that snapshots are used, but not explicitly.  The startup 
> scripts attempt to run fsck in the background, which would normally 
> require a snapshot, but shouldn't for a read-only mount, right?

What happens if the filesystem is marked dirty, background fsck is
enabled, but the filesystem is mounted read-only?

Kris
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