Re: /sbin/losetup read only

[Olivier <oliv@gensys-net.eu>]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer,

You are right about the three things in a default live cd behavior.

Mounting filesystem.squashfs in read-only mode is not a problem, but 
when you want to mount something like home-rw.ext2, that doesn't do the 
trick.

Does this mean that read-only mode is set to default in /sbin/losetup 
source code ?

Two things seem to me a bit strange :
- busy box losetup doesn't mount by default in read-only mode.
- calling losetup from the booted environment doesn't mount by default 
in read-only mode.

Regards,

Olivier


Daniel Baumann wrote:


> Olivier wrote:
>   
> > Why does /sbin/losetup mount /dev/loop* readonly when called from
> > initramfs script ?
> >     
>
> because
>
>   * you cannot write to a fixed image anyway
>
>   * not on a read-only media anyway
>
>   * the purpose of a live system is to be (by default behaviour) not
>     persistent.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>