Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:12:44 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.26 JFS: cannot mount |
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:35:28AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2004, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > No, all of the code to replay the journal is in user space. JFS does > > allow a read-only mount when the superblock is dirty. This allows > > fsck.jfs to replay the journal while the root is mounted read-only. / > > can then be remounted rw after fsck runs. > > So was the mount was refused because a) the read-only > option was missing while b) the file system needed a journal replay? > > Interesting difference. XFS insists on replaying the log in kernel space > (user space can only zero the log),
FWIW, all of the log replay code is there in userspace, so it should just be a "simple matter of programming" to implement this for XFS (noone has ever done so though, and its never really been a priority for us).
cheers.
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