Is remounting same file system with different options disruptive for current operations?

I want to remount a file system with optimized options (noatime,nobarrier,etc.) on SLES11. I was going to do it by updating /etc/fstab first and then do something like mount -o remount /srv/share. The problem is that there are images of several active virtual machines on this file system exported via NFS and I was thinking if remount can be done without shutting them down. So is remount operation disruptive? Have anyone ever tried something like this before? What was the outcome?

Solution 1:

I just did something similar and it had no discernible effect on the remote host. I say: go for it.

What I did:

• hostA (client) mounts hostB (server) via NFS: mount hostB:/share /share
• on hostA the following command was run: ( cd /bigdata && tar cf - . ) | ( cd /share && tar xvf - )
• hostB the following command was run: mount -o remount,noatime /share

I saw no problems, no log messages.