Re: assurance that / is read-only before fsck
Robert Sanders writes:
> Here's what I have in my rc.S now:
> ...
> mount -n -o remount,ro /
>
> This obviously isn't perfect, but it at least tries to force the root
> directory to be read-only, and it's much less error prone than any
> other mothod I've seen. At one point I had the script checking root's
> writability by echoing to a reserved file in /etc, but that's ugly,
> and the above solution will correct an improperly installed kernel.
I don't think this is safe.
I was under the impression that if you mount a fs read-write, then
read-only, and then read-write again, the kernel can buffer stuff
across the remount(s) in such a way that the filesystem can get
corrupted if you modify the fs while it is read-only.
I'd like to see someone knowledgeable about such things comment.
If this is true then perhaps attempting a test write to a file in /tmp
would be a better idea.
Ian.
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