[2765] in bugtraq
Re: Read only devices (Re: BoS: amodload.tar.gz - ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Tao)
Fri Jun 21 03:01:50 1996
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:25:25 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <960620202341.ZM11053@novelty.cisco.com>
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).
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
