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 17:52:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:51:39 -0400 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:43012 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:51:29 -0400 Message-ID: <20010830235005.B9330@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:50:05 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Hans Reiser Cc: Nikita Danilov , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, research@suse.de Subject: Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay? 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <3B8EAD35.5695B30B@namesys.com>; from Hans Reiser on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:16:37AM +0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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