On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 02:54, Amit D Chaudhary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a rather simple question, for a xfs partition mounted as
> /(root), before reboot it is mounted as read-only to ensure all data is
> flushed. Is this considered to be ok practise as far as xfs is
> concerned? It is really a handling from the original ext2 /. Actual
> statement is
> mount -n -o ro,remount /
>
> Also, at times some of the scripts do a sync call to flush dirty data to
> disk including that on the xfs root, again will this work as documented
> in man sync?
>
> Running linux-2.4.5+xfs1.0.1 in this case.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Amit
The original xfs implementation did not really support going from a
read/write to a read only mount. However, code was added to the linux
port to support this.
Everything should work as you expect it to.
Steve
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