ntfs kernel module

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 26, 2004, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> but, once again, if the FS is mounted read only, how will that page
> "eventually make it to disk", as you describe it?

If the page is marked as dirty, it will eventually be flushed to
disk.  Pages are below the FS layer, so whether the FS is read only or
read write won't matter at all if the page is marked as dirty.

Not to mention the fact that the OS could very well think it was
writing to a different filesystem but, due to memory corruption, ends
up overwriting bits of the read-only filesystem.

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