[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Read Only File-system

[Joseph Lewis]

HI Rick,

It is indeed an ext4, however all of the actual vms are stored on an NTFS
drive, I'll just have to symlink the snapshots over. (Or get up to my neck
debugging Virtualbox and Linux kernel code :-)

Thanks a lot,

Joe

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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Rick Scott <rick at shadowspar.dyndns.org>wrote:

> (Joseph Lewis:)
> > I'm trying to keep snapshots of my Evergreen development environment in
> > VirtualBox, but whenever I take one then restore it, I get a read-only
> fs;
> > any ideas?
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Is your host (non-virtual) machine using an ext4 filesystem, by chance?
> I had serious problems with the VMs' filesystems getting corrupted when
> running VirtualBox from an ext4 disk.  None of the configuration changes
> mentioned in the various VirtualBox support forums seemed to help.
> Finally I gave up and created an ext3 filesystem just for my ~/.VirtualBox
> directory, which solved the problem.  VirtualBox just doesn't seem to
> like ext4's approach to handling disk I/O at all.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rick
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