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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Can I mount the xen image file while vm is running



On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, maddie <mkl1983@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> If i mounted the VM READ only then would the data getcorrupted  ? ? ?

DId you mean mount the filesystem read-only on dom0?
Most modern filesystem (like ext3) requires replaying journal when
mounting a "dirty" (i.e. not cleanly unmounted) filesystem. The
journal replay process perform writes to the underlying device, thus
can still cause corruption.

-- 
Fajar

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