[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#862271: Bug#862271: zfs-linux: loop mounted files on zfs are read-only

[Aron Xu]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Vladislav Kurz
<vladislav.kurz at webstep.net> wrote:
> Package: zfs-linux
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> loop mounted files on ZFS are read only:
>
> $ truncate -s 64G filesystem.img
> $ mkfs.ext4 filesystem.img
> $ mount -o loop filesystem.img /mnt
> $ touch /mnt/test
> touch: cannot touch ‘/mnt/test’: Read-only file system
> $ mount -o remount,rw /mnt/
> mount: cannot remount /dev/loop0 read-write, is write-protected
>
> checking with mount, losetup shows that the loop filesystem is read only
> It seems to be fixed upstream, please update to 0.6.5.10
> https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5776
>

I confirm the problem. Release team is not likely to allow 0.6.5.10 to
enter testing, but we can try to push specific patches to fix it.

Regards,
Aron