Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:44 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? |
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > 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. > > ext2 is willing to mount ro even with known inconsistencies. SuSE 7.1 > does not come with 'live filesystem' and install cd does not have > reiserfsck on it. Too bad. You have to install somewhere to be able to > run reiserfsck on suse7.1.
Hmm. Is there any chance of *not* replaying the log on mount-ro, and using a combination of on disk meta-data, and journal? - 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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