[PATCH 3/5] set the ro-rw kernel parameters for extlinux

Gene Czarcinski gczarcinski at gmail.com
Tue May 27 10:55:57 UTC 2014


On 05/27/2014 03:37 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:01 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> This addresses BZ 1036903
>>
>> When extlinux is the bootloader: if the rootfs is btrfs, then set the
>> kernel mount parameter to rw, otherwise set it to ro.
>>
>> For rootfs on btrfs it is unnecessary to mount ro since there
>> is no fsck at boot for this journeled file system.
> Is there any advantage of using 'rw' for btrfs?
>
As BZ 1036903 points out, it is unnecessary to mount the rootfs ro as no 
checking is done.

Gene


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