On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ben Logan wrote: > AFAIK, read-only means that for the kernel too. For example, when a > root filesystem is mounted read-only (on bootup), the kernel will yell > at you if it doesn't get remounted rw (if there are files on that > partition that have to be updated at boot). > > But I'm not an expert in this area...or any really. :)
There's a counter somewhere on ext2 filesystems that tracks how often a partition gets mounted without fsck'ing. That might get touched, even if it's being mounted RO. That's the only thing I can think of. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "Love is like pi DK KD -- natural, irrational, and very important." DDDD -Lisa Hoffman _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
