On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:00:17PM -0500, Jonas Meyer wrote:
> It seems to be nearly instant, yes.  If not instant, it is within 2-3
> minutes.  I am using ext3, so I should be mounting read-only.  I wasn't,
> but somehow it doesn't seem like messing with the journal a little bit
> would screw up the system in this manner...  I'll fix the read-only part
> and keep the list up to date.

note that by default, ro mounts of ext3 can write to the
filesystem. if you force a true ro mount (i.e. where the
kernel may not write to the device) then the mount will
fail if there are uncommitted journal entries. cf.
    http://www.mail-archive.com/tsl-discuss@lists.trustix.org/msg04688.html

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