>>> On 6/8/2009 at  7:38 PM, Shane Ginnane <sginn...@isi.com.au> wrote: 
>>  If the access will truly be read-only, then mount the file system as
>> ext2, and not ext3.
> 
> I don't believe that will work if the dirty flag is on - which it will be
> if you are worried about journal replay on (re-)mount.

It will work as long as you don't try to run fsck against it.  The file system 
driver will whine, but it will mount it.


Mark Post

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