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 17:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:16:47 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:15890 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:16:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8EAD35.5695B30B@namesys.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:16:37 +0400 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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. > > If reiserfsck detects errors on /, you can't repair them because > reiserfsck is on that partition. Ouch. > > > > [reiserfs panics while replaying journal; seems there are still some bugs > > > hidden in there]. Unfortunately, "nolog" option does not seem imlemented. > > > > There is a patch allowing to mount reiserfs if there was io error during > > journal replay on mount. It is included into 2.4.9-ac* tree (it was sent > > to Linus several times, but this did not avail). > > I already repaired my system -- had to install another copy of suse to > another partition :-(. I boot from CDROM when I have such problems. > > > Can you send to Reiserfs mail-list more > > detailed information about your case, like ksymoopsed stack trace, > > etc. > > 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 > -- > The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel > GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/