[PATCH 1/1] ubifs: support authentication, for ro mount, when no key is given

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Fri Jun 26 03:53:59 EDT 2020


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> Another topic:
> 
> Richard raised the point on irc, that in a dirty filesystem, the journal
> would be replayed even in ro mode.
> 
> i dont see that happening.

I think there is a confusion. Replay is not the same as recovery.
Of course it does not recover, this needs writing.
But it has to replay the journal, otherwise the index tree can point to already
garbage collected LEBs.

Thanks,
//richard



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