On Friday 16 May 2008 19:28:27 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Christian Borntraeger schrieb: > > Hello Rusty, > > > > sometimes it is useful to share a disk (e.g. usr). To avoid file system > > corruption, the disk should be mounted read-only in that case. > > Although it is done at a different level here, I wanted to note that > mounting a filesystem read-only does not necessarily mean the system will > not try to write to it. This is the case for ext3, for example - when > mounted ro, system will still reply the journal and do some writes etc. > > The patch, however, should take care of that, too, as it is completely > different place it is made ro. Note I'm assuming that the host will deny writes. Telling the guest is merely politeness. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
