Steve Kemp wrote:
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab.
Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one.
But, why are
xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default in the first
place?
The default xen-tools installation creates *ext3* filesystems by
default. Since your post mentioned reiserfs you were no longer
using the default.
There are options to handle the different filesystem mount
options. You can see those in /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf:
$ grep _options /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf
So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default
file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available
file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools.conf
doesn't list ro only as an option for mounting them? xen-tools.conf
tells me if I use reiserfs xen will use reiserfs defaults to mount it.
Since when is reiserfs a read only file system by default?
I'm not meaning to pick at you, just understand what's going on. I do
appreciate your hard work in creating xen-tools. It's just hard to wrap
my head around everything about Xen in one go, and I'm someone who has
to understand what's going on before I get comfortable with things.
Why create an install that is, for all practical purposes, useless by
default? I just don't understand.
I don't believe the configuration is broken by default.
I don't know enough to even begin to suggest that it is.
I also don't believe any that any "default" can be reasonable
for all users when it comes to virtualization - if only because
people have different ideas about networks, filesystems, and
packages.
(ObDisclaimer: I wrote xen-tools.)
I wondered about this when I saw the xen-tools author's name. Thanks
for your hard work.
Steve
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