Re: [mdadm git pull] imsm fixes and general external metadata updates

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:16:06AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>On Tue, February 24, 2009 6:53 am, Doug Ledford wrote:
>> Is XFS the only one that does the journal recovery on initial mount
>> read-only during the initfs step, or do other journaled fses do the same
>> thing?  I didn't think ext3 recovered the journal until you switch to a
>> read-write mount, but I guess I could be wrong.
>
>This from fs/ext3/super.c
>
>	if (EXT3_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER)) {
>		if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
>			printk(KERN_INFO "EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery "
>					"required on readonly filesystem.\n");
>			if (really_read_only) {
>				printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: write access "
>					"unavailable, cannot proceed.\n");
>				return -EROFS;
>			}
>			printk (KERN_INFO "EXT3-fs: write access will "
>					"be enabled during recovery.\n");
>		}
>	}
>
>suggests that, unfortunately, you are.
>
am i misreading or the above is just a check not to
incur in further problems later?

L.

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