On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0800, nate wrote: > Bruce Park said: > > How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very > > dangerous. > > I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the > topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded right and ties into > the kernel right there should be nothing written to the disk if it's mounted > as read only. But there have been cases(I think the thread at the time was > about NTFS, then someone brought up ext3) where even when mounted read only > the kernel will happily write to the filesystem anyways. I'm sure that > this particular issue with ext3 was resolved long ago.. I'm fairly sure that mounting it read-only is pretty much completely safe. -rob
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