On Thursday, January 04, 2001 01:58:47 PM -0500 Alexander Viro
<viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>> Looks like the prerelease, and at least test13 don't fsync the device
>> when someone does an unmount on /
>>
>> mount -o remount works, just unmounting the root misses the fsync.
>> [snip]
>
> I have a better suggestion:
>
> if (mnt == current->fs->rootmnt && !umount_root) {
> mntput(mnt);
> return do_remount("/", 0, NULL);
> }
>
Ok, but I thought we would need an MS_RDONLY in there somewhere...How about
this:
-chris
--- linux/fs/super.c.1 Thu Jan 4 13:38:55 2001
+++ linux/fs/super.c Thu Jan 4 14:14:04 2001
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
extern int root_mountflags;
static int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, char * data);
+static int do_remount(const char *dir, int flags, char * data);
/* this is initialized in init/main.c */
kdev_t ROOT_DEV;
@@ -1025,15 +1026,12 @@
* call reboot(9). Then init(8) could umount root and exec /reboot.
*/
if (mnt == current->fs->rootmnt && !umount_root) {
- int retval = 0;
/*
* Special case for "unmounting" root ...
* we just try to remount it readonly.
*/
mntput(mnt);
- if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
- retval = do_remount_sb(sb, MS_RDONLY, 0);
- return retval;
+ return do_remount("/", MS_RDONLY, NULL);
}
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-
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