Re: SUSE 9.1 with ReiserFS: / won't fsck, but is otherwise fine

[Chris Worley <cworley@symbionsys.com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:32, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:56:31AM -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 07:30, Hendrik Visage wrote:
> > > 1) Why do you *want* to fsck a reiserfs? Unless you have troubles, then a
> > > fsck on a reiserfs is not needed by design of a logging/journaling fs
> > 
> > You don't have a choice on the root file system... fsck will be run.
> 
> Then ignore it for a reiserfs...
> 
> > If there's really nothing wrong with the FS, then I'm okay just making a
> > no-op fsck.reiserfs and leaving it at that... I'm just worried that
> > something is really wrong with the file system, and I need to fix that. 
> > As it sits atop an LVM, I want to add a few more partitions to the LVM
> > and extend the Reiser fs... but I'm paranoid, with this error, to
> > proceed.
> 
> First understand a logging/journaling fs :)

I do understand a journaling fs, and have used Reiser for many years. 
My understanding of journaling fs's is not the problem.  There was a
time when this fs properly fsck'd at boot, and then a time when it
didn't.  This is a problem.  Furthermore, SuSE would not have forced the
fsck (irrespective of the fstab settings) of the root fs if it didn't
apply to Reiser.

Please re-read my original email, as I don't think you understand the
situation.

Thanks,

Chris