Re: [Xen-users] read only disk option in domUs

[list user <xktnniuymlla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 8:16 pm, list user wrote:
>
> > The only thing that worked for me 'read-only' was "ext2" formatting.
>
> makes (some) sense, if the only difference betwee ext2 and ext3 is the 
> journalling... and if you don't write to a filsystem, you don't 'journal' it.
> even so, i think it should be possible to mount as ext3 with options=ro, and 
> it should be exactly the same as mounting as ext2/ro
> (of course, still no fsck in any case)
Read your post just after I sent a "resolved" to the list.  Oh well.

Created a test fs with ext3 and set the mount options in fstab to "0 0" 
and that eliminated the original problem.
The domU's are now sharing /usr with ext3 read-only.

Thanks Javier.


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