From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@namesys.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, research@suse.de
Subject: Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:50:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.cz> (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>
In-Reply-To: <3B8EAD35.5695B30B@namesys.com>; from Hans Reiser on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:16:37AM +0400
Hi!
> > > > For recovering broken machine, I'd like to mount without replaying journal.
> > >
> > > You cannot mount without replaying even in read-only mode, because
> > > file-system meta-data are possibly inconsistent.
> >
> > 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.
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-30 21:52 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 [this message]
2001-08-30 22:04 ` Mike Fedyk
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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