On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:24:52AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:18:54AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:22:34AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > > > isn't this a filesystem bug? > > Closing a delted file means freeing blocks and this means writing to disk. > > So you cant remount ro as long as a file which is deleted is open. Same is > > true as long as you have a file opened for read. > > You could, of course, change your filesystem so that it'd have a separate > "soon-to-be-deleted" table on the disk, which needn't be empty for the > fs to be mounted read-only; with the behaviour that if an open file has Why not simply make the filesystem act as if it was read-only and tag it in some way (in the mount table) so that it will really get ro once the opened files are closed and deleted? Greetings Torsten
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