[sclug] root-like read-all but not write ability?

[Sean Furey]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:38:50PM +0100, Dickon Hood wrote:
> I was about to suggest loopback mounting the filesystem somewhere but
> read-only and taking your backup against that, but you can't do it on
> Linux.

I'm not sure what you're describing as loopback mounting, but if it's
what I think it is, mount --bind along with the kernel patches for
read-only bind mounts would do the same thing.

Sean