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 18:04:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:04:37 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:27380 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:04:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:44 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? Message-ID: <20010830150444.C1451@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> <3B8EAD35.5695B30B@namesys.com> <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.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 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?