Comment 24 for bug 41624

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 41624] Re: Replaying journals of other OS's filesystems, by mounting them, is unsafe

Ian Jackson wrote:
> You can say "don't do that then" but
> mount -o ro
> is exactly what every administrator reaches for in time of trouble,
> and they expect it to do no harm.

That was exactly the point I argued on the LKML but they don't seem to
see it that way. Maybe Ben Collins can try to knock this sense into
them, or fix it for Ubuntu?