From linux-ntfs-dev  Mon Apr 15 15:51:13 2024
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds () linux-foundation ! org>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:51:13 +0000
To: linux-ntfs-dev
Subject: Re: [Linux-ntfs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ntfs3: remove warning
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 08:47, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> I think the "ntfs" alias must always be mounted read-only because you
> can currently have an fstab entry which does not specify "ro" and this
> mount would suddenly become writeable when updating to 6.9 (possibly by
> a non-privileged user, etc).

Well, it would be fairly easy to do particularly if we just do it for
the old legacy case.

Of course, even the legacy case had that CONFIG_NTFS_RW option, so
people who depended on _that_ would want to be able to remount...

               Linus


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