RW and RO semantic and unable to umount a partition?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:39:48PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:19:17PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > Not sure why. It might be that file system changed under you (node n18
> > modified it), so now n17 sees some strange inconsistencies.
> > 
> > All in all, you can eigher mount the same file system multiple times
> > read-only OR one time read-write and zero times read-only.
> 
> Better not mount ufs volume more then once regardless of the mount mode.
> See the start of the ffs_mountfs(). ffs mount modifies devvp bufobj with
> reference to geom consumer.

Yes, I know, I even had patch for that, although here I was talking
about mounting the same FS read-only on few separate machines using ggate.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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