I once again have to ask why someone would want to share a journaling file system, read-only, between systems. If all systems accessing a file system have it mounted read-only, there is absolutely no danger of the file system ever being in an inconsistent state. Therefore, there is really no reason to have a journaling file system in use, in which case ext2 will probably give you the best performance.
In your case, since you're running SLES9, I would strongly recommend looking at using the xip2 file system. It will give you even better performance, and will save you real storage as well. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sheckler Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sharing reiserfs r/o Hello all, I'm trying to share a reiser file system r/o between two SLES9 64-bit Linux virtual machines (call them Linux1 and Linux2). I have the minidisk defined as MR in Linux1's directory entry, and linked RR in Linux2's directory entry. Linux2 is cloned from Linux1. The /etc/fstab for both virtual machines mounts the filesystem with the "acl,user_xattr,ro" attributes, and the last two parameters have been at various time "1 2" and "0 0". I've tried "defaults,ro" with "0 0" also. The original virtual machine (Linux1) mounts the file system with no problems, but Linux2 will not mount it. Nothing I've tried works so far. I've even added the dasd= parameter to zipl.conf defining the disk in question as (ro) and I did rerun zipl before rebooting. When I did that, Linux1 would not mount the file system either. Any ideas? Feel free to reply to me off list (I digest the list, so I won't get list responses until the next day). Thanks, -Bill Sheckler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
