Re: VirtualBox Hangs Pre-Init Due To Ext2FS Fault

[Richard Braun]

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);
...

-- 
Richard Braun