From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: allow checking on mounted root fs (v2)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 17:35:51 -0400
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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 04:55:04PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Commit 732e26b98e5c79a4298dbe341f43b54b354bb241 added checks to
> prevent e2fsck from being run in filesystem-modifying mode against
> a mounted or otherwise busy device, due to several bug reports of
> users doing this even with the verbose warnings in check_mount().
> 
> However, it also prevented e2fsck from checking a mounted root
> filesystem, which will prevent the node from booting.  Once again
> allow e2fsck to run against the mounted root filesystem if it is
> also mounted read-only at the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted