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To: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl
Subject: Re: 2.4 bug: fifo-write causes diskwrites to read-only fs ! 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 May 2003 20:22:04 BST."
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:37:07 +0200
From: Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>
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> 
> 
> Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > It turns out that Linux is updating inode timestamps of fifos (named
> > pipes) that are written to while residing on a read-only filesystem.
> > It is not only updating in-ram info, but it will issue *physical*
> > writes to the read-only fs on the disk !
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I can't give a solution but the workaround is obvious:
> mount -t ramfs none /myFifos

Hi Nuno,

Yup, already thought of that.
But would be nice if the bug was fixed too !

	greetings,
	Rob van Nieuwkerk
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