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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:42:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4619B60B.6030405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070409033134.GB13980@implementation>

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.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09  0:05 Add a norecovery option to ext3/4? Samuel Thibault
2007-04-09  3:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-09  3:31   ` Samuel Thibault
2007-04-09  3:42     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-04-09 14:00       ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-09  4:29   ` Brad Campbell
2007-04-09 10:14   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-04-09 13:42   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-09 16:37   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 20:06   ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-09 15:43 ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-09 16:20   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-09 17:21   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-10  7:22     ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-10 11:27       ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-10 12:08         ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-10 16:44           ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-10 18:54     ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-10 19:18       ` Eric Sandeen
2007-04-10 22:04         ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11 20:09         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-12 13:54           ` Benny Amorsen
2007-04-15 18:49           ` Pavel Machek

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