Re: ext2fs: inode with zero dtime

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:52:30 +0100 (BST)

> For case 2, would it be reasonable to close the open files before
> the remount, and allow them to be actually deleted before the remount
> completes? Perhaps they could be deleted on disk, but left undeleted
> as far as the in memory copy is concerned--we're about to reboot anyway, right?

No. Don't believe the entire world works the way you happen to think. I
for example regularly remount almost everything read-only before trying the
latest "hey this crashes Linux 2.0.36pre-blah" reports

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