Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:42:03 -0500 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? |
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Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Hm, so the root cause there seems that the installer found 2 legs of a >> mirror and mounted them independently, recovering them independently... >> But why did that cause problems? > > Because that thrashed his data (or at least it didn't help to keep data > safe). > >> Other options you may have in the installer, though, is to check for >> md superblocks before mounting bare partitions, or maybe use the >> BLKROSET ioctl to set the block device to read-only prior to mount, >> for added insurance... > > That's one the things proposed in the bugreport yes.
The reason I suggest other options is because intentionally mounting a corrupted FS may not really be the way you want to go... norecovery on xfs at least is an option of last resort, not something to use by default.
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