From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:05:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20070409000556.GA13980@implementation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from iona.labri.fr ([147.210.8.143]:40585 "EHLO iona.labri.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752141AbXDIAF6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:05:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Hi, Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery). This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage data. XFS has a norecovery option that allows to disable that, I'd say ext3/4 should have it too. Samuel