From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:31:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:30:57 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:2546 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:30:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:30:55 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? Message-ID: <20010830143055.B6933@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010826130858.A39@toy.ucw.cz> <15246.11218.125243.775849@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20010830225323.A18630@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010830225323.A18630@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > No stack trace, sorry. It refused to mount saying that attempting to > write into log block.. That's panic. Reiserfsck is not usable in such > case, because ... how do you run reiserfsck from partition you can't > mount? > Pavel And how do you deal with that situation on xfs, ext3, or any other journaled fs? I don't think it even needs to be journaled at all. If you have a broken ext2, and can't mount root, you're screwed until you put it in another system to fix it... Mike