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.

Jonas

Antoine Martin wrote:
> Chris Lightfoot wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:40:08PM +0000, Antoine Martin wrote:
>>> Between stop and go the filesystem is still mounted on the guest right?
>>> If so, you are screwing the filesystems by mounting them on the host: 
>>> the mount command will run fixups on the (journaled?) filesystem.
>>> (You could try mounting read-only - but still, bad idea IMO)
>> with journalled filesystems this is correct, though iirc
>> there is a way to flush the journal for this type of
>> application (well, specifically for mounting LVM snapshots
>> to do backups, but it's semantically the same). but
>> messing up the filesystem of a running machine shouldn't
>> cause the effects described -- things should run, or more
>> accurately fall messily apart, for a while after the
>> event.
> True.
> Jonas, is it really immediate in this case?
> 
> Even if it its, it could still be a kernel bug (and not a UML bug).
> Which type of filesystem are you using?
> 
> Antoine
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