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Re: [Xen-users] Filesystem Corruption

To: "Roman ZARAGOCI" <roman.zaragoci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Filesystem Corruption
From: "Mehdi AMINI" <armeni67@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:44:20 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,


> Our virtual machines have some filesystem corruption problems.
> The filesystem is being mounted on read-only mode.

[...]

> I've read some stuff about risks using an ext3 filesystem with loop
> devices, we cannot guarantee the write order on disk between vm's
> filesystem and Dom0's filesystem.

I don't understand, if you mount read only, why should there be any write
order to guarantee ?

Mehdi



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