Re: 2.4.7-ac7 ext3: Can I remount and change mount option ?

[Andrew Morton]

Steve Kieu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I still can not remount my ext3 root partition to
> change to the data=writeback mode using 2.4.7-ac7 .
> And any other partition too.

This is not possible - you must unmount to change the
data journalling mode.

> >From alan post...
> 
> Don't refuse unneccessarily on remount with     (Petr
> Vandrovec)
>                               data= option with ext3
> 
> it means that I can do a remount an already mounted
> ext3 FS and change the data mode?

No, this refers to a problem where
	mount foo -o data=journal
would succeed, but then
	mount foo -o remount,data=journal
would fail.  We now allow remount to specify the journalling
mode, but it must be the same as the current mode - this change
is just to allow us to work more nicely with the mount tools.

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