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Re: Read only devices (Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott J. Kramer)
Fri Jun 21 00:57:55 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:23:41 -0700
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From: "Scott J. Kramer" <sjk@cisco.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: Sean Vickery <S.Vickery@its.gu.edu.au> "Re: Read only devices
(Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)" (Jun 21, 11:57)
On Jun 21, 11:57, Sean Vickery wrote:
> Subject: Re: Read only devices (Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)
> But to change the disk back to read-write
> cannot be done over the network. It requires physical access to the
> disk(s).
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.
-sjk
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