mount -o remount -o rw / regression ?

[Engelmayer Christian]

> For debugging yesterday I never had an issue with BB 1.12.1
> mount -oremount,rw /

thx for the hint.

fails: mount -o remount -o rw /mnt/myMountPoint
works: mount -o remount,rw /mnt/myMountPoint

> -----Original Message-----
> From: busybox-bounces at busybox.net [mailto:busybox-bounces at busybox.net]
> On Behalf Of Jason Curl
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:23 PM
> To: Engelmayer Christian
> Cc: busybox at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: mount -o remount -o rw / regression ?
> 
> Engelmayer Christian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a use case where a file system partition gets
> > mounted read-only and a daemon is started from that
> > partition. At some times it is necessary to have that
> > partition read-writeable to update some files on it.
> >
> > Under BusyBox 1.2.2 one could simply change the file
> > systems flags to 'rw' by issuing
> >
> >    'mount -o remount -o rw /mnt/myMountPoint'
> >
> For debugging yesterday I never had an issue with BB 1.12.1
> 
> mount -oremount,rw /
> 
> 
> > Since I upgraded to Busybox release 1.11.3 the same
> > scenario fails with 'Device or resource busy', as if
> > it was tried to unmount and mount the partition again,
> > which is not possible as the mentioned daemon is still
> > running.
> >
> > Is this a desired change in the behavior or a regression?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christian
> >
> 
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