Hi, I have a dual-ported raid controller which allows two computers to connect to the same ext3 filesystem. I never mount both systems read-write at the same time. What I would like to do is use one normally, and mount the second system read-only to perform backups and to rsync the filesystem to another filesystem. When it's mounted read-write from another system, will mounting the same filesystem read-only cause the journal to be committed at the time it's mounted? If so, is that a bad thing, that is, will it corrupt the filesystem? Are journal events handled similar to databases, with regard to transaction processing of journal events, or could playing "partial" journal events (if there is such a thing) cause corruption? Is mounting the read-only instance as a ext2 filesystem the best solution, or does it matter if it's mounted ext2 or ext3 as long as it's read-only? -- Jeff Garlough _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
