On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:46:00AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > > Is it better to always open the backing file with read-only mode ? this > > will be more consistent/predictable ? > > I would love to open them read-only unconditionally, but we can't. It > would break the commit monitor command. I think the read-only fallback > is appropriate for backing files.
The clean way would be to require an explicit BACKING_WRITEABLE flag if we want to commit to it. But I suspect it's too late to refit that now.
