On 3/20/07, ian@brightstareng.com <ian@brightstareng.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 06:31, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> > > The attached patch implements saving of yaffs checkpoint in
> > > case fs is remounted read-only. This allows the usage of
> > > checkpoint mechanizm even if, for some reason, the system
> > > can not cleanly unmount yaffs filesystem but can remount it
> > > read-only.
>
> Does this change mean that when a user mounts Yaffs fs read-only
> that write operations may take place to the NAND media?

IMV, the only situation where it potentially can happen is when a
filesystem was mounted read-only and is remounted with read-only flag
as well.
This (http://git.infradead.org/?p=users/vwool/mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=31ba38d77f48e5841281ccc5f7e9d92031a2d9e3)
 should fix it anyway.

Vitaly