Re: can't mount XFS from a read-only device

Emmanuel Florac
2009-10-09T19:19:23Z

Le Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:43:51 +0200 vous écriviez:

> Log recovery is failing on a read-only device. Try mounting
> with the "ro,norecovery" options. However, this will give you a
> potentially inconsistent view of the filesystem.
>
> Are you snapshotting a live filesystem? If yes, then I'd suggest
> using xfs_freeze -f/snapshot/xfs_freeze -u to get consistent
> snapshots.

Yes, norecovery did it. I did snapshots previously using LVM, but these
are writable, so only "nouuid" is necessary (to mount the original FS
and snapshot side by side).

I thought that xfs_freeze was broken recently?