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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:39:52 -0600
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange remount behaviour with ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:32:21AM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote:
> Following the announcement on lkml, I have started using ext3 on one of my
> servers.  Since the server in question is a farily security-sensitive box, my
> /usr partition is mounted read only except when I remount rw to install
> packages.

Regardless of possible weirdness in a "smart" behaviour of 'mount' what
one exactly buys running a journaling file system on a _read only_
partition?  fsck times will be the same (unless you crashed when
installing new software :-).

  Michal
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