From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:14:02 +0000 Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: [GFS2][PATCH] - Allow journal recovery on read-only mount In-Reply-To: <479106CD.9010408@redhat.com> References: <479106CD.9010408@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1200906842.22038.161.camel@quoit> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:06 -0600, Abhijith Das wrote: > This patch allows gfs2 to perform journal recovery even if it is mounted > read-only. Strictly speaking, a read-only mount should not be writing to > the filesystem, but we do this only to perform journal recovery. A > read-only mount will fail if we don't recover the dirty journal. Also, > when gfs2 is used as a root filesystem, it will be mounted read-only > before being mounted read-write during the boot sequence. A failed > read-only mount will panic the machine during bootup. > > Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das > I've applied this one since I want to get all the patches ready for posting prior to the forthcoming merge window. If we need to alter it, then we can do that later, Steve.