Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

[Justus Winter]

Hi James :)

you found a long-standing bug in ext2fs.  Fixing it allows us to get
rid of the ugly workaround in daemons/runsystem.sh (look for `XXX').

Quoting Richard Braun (2015-07-13 10:16:14)
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:56:31PM +0100, James Clarke wrote:
> > That doesn’t seem to boot at all. I had tried changing it to inhibiting all 
> > RPCs (it looks like you’ve inhibited an extra class?), but it seems that 
> > paging is needed? Perhaps part of ext2fs gets paged out, and it needs to be 
> > paged in when remounting?
> 
> Remounting can require paging out, yes.
> 
> See diskfs_reload_global_state in ext2fs :
> 
> diskfs_reload_global_state ()
> {
>   pokel_flush (&global_pokel);
>   pager_flush (diskfs_disk_pager, 1);

So I guess we need to inhibit the RPCs here, not before calling
diskfs_reload_global_state, then do:

  get_hypermetadata ();
  map_hypermetadata ();

And reenable them here.

  return 0;
}

I guess that means changing the diskfs API.  James, do you want to
give it a shot?

In the mean time, enjoy my hacky workaround:
http://nonmonolithic.org/ext2fs.static

Cheers,
Justus