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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1996: Re: Read only devices (Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)

Re: Read only devices (Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)

Brian Tao (taobio.org)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:25:25 -0400

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Scott J. Kramer wrote:
>
> Not so.  Just set the VFS_RDONLY flag of the filesystem you want to
> make readonly after it was remounted read/write.  We do it frequently.

    I think he was referring to setting a hardware write-protect on
the drive (read the preceding paragraph from his message).
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Brian Tao (BT300, taobio.org, taobican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"