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

[sjk () cisco com (Scott J. Kramer)]

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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