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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010830150444.C1451@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010826130858.A39@toy.ucw.cz> <15246.11218.125243.775849@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20010830225323.A18630@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3B8EAD35.5695B30B@namesys.com> <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.cz>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Then suse's  use of reiserfs is pretty b0rken. Putting reiserfsck on /
> > > partition is pretty useless -- if it crashes during mount you can't
> > > repair it.
> > 
> > Every filesystem has this problem, if the root directory gets hosed you have to
> > use the CDROM.
> > Booting from CDROM with SuSE is not such a problem.
> 
> ext2 is willing to mount ro even with known inconsistencies. SuSE 7.1
> does not come with 'live filesystem' and install cd does not have
> reiserfsck on it. Too bad. You have to install somewhere to be able to
> run reiserfsck on suse7.1.

Hmm.  Is there any chance of *not* replaying the log on mount-ro, and using
a combination of on disk meta-data, and journal?

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-30 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-26 13:08 Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? Pavel Machek
2001-08-30 12:04 ` Nikita Danilov
2001-08-30 20:53   ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-30 21:16     ` Hans Reiser
2001-08-30 21:50       ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-30 22:04         ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2001-08-30 22:10           ` Dan Hollis
2001-08-30 22:15         ` Rafael Herrera
2001-08-30 22:32         ` Alan Cox
2001-09-04 20:53         ` Chris Mason
2001-09-04 21:33           ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-05  2:01             ` Chris Mason
2001-08-30 21:30     ` Mike Fedyk
2001-08-30 21:35       ` Hans Reiser

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