Plus, there's simply no benefit to using a journaled file system in read-only mode. The journal is there to record updates that haven't been written out to the file system yet. A read-only file system won't have any updates, so no need for the journal. As you point out, it only causes confusion and strange-looking "errors."
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: basevol/guestvol w/ Reiserfs or ext2 opinions It looks like your root filesystem was not unmounted cleanly. Perhaps something went wrong during the shutdown of the guest. You may be able to get around this by mounting it r/w, then unmount and mount it r/o. In general I don't like to use journaled filesystems for read only access. It seems like they will try to write to the journal even when the filesystem is mounted read only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
