Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:16:37 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > For recovering broken machine, I'd like to mount without replaying journal. > > > > You cannot mount without replaying even in read-only mode, because > > file-system meta-data are possibly inconsistent. > > Then suse's use of reiserfs is pretty b0rken. Putting reiserfsck on / > partition is pretty useless -- if it crashes during mount you can't > repair it.
Every filesystem has this problem, if the root directory gets hosed you have to use the CDROM. Booting from CDROM with SuSE is not such a problem.
> > If reiserfsck detects errors on /, you can't repair them because > reiserfsck is on that partition. Ouch. > > > > [reiserfs panics while replaying journal; seems there are still some bugs > > > hidden in there]. Unfortunately, "nolog" option does not seem imlemented. > > > > There is a patch allowing to mount reiserfs if there was io error during > > journal replay on mount. It is included into 2.4.9-ac* tree (it was sent > > to Linus several times, but this did not avail). > > I already repaired my system -- had to install another copy of suse to > another partition :-(.
I boot from CDROM when I have such problems.
> > > Can you send to Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@Namesys.COM> more > > detailed information about your case, like ksymoopsed stack trace, > > etc. > > No stack trace, sorry. It refused to mount saying that attempting to > write into log block.. That's panic. Reiserfsck is not usable in such > case, because ... how do you run reiserfsck from partition you can't > mount? > Pavel > -- > The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel > GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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