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 17:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:35:37 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.0.238]:3848 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8EB1AE.83C7515B@namesys.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:35:42 +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: Mike Fedyk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <20010830143055.B6933@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> 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 Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > 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 > > And how do you deal with that situation on xfs, ext3, or any other journaled > fs? I don't think it even needs to be journaled at all. > > If you have a broken ext2, and can't mount root, you're screwed until you > put it in another system to fix it... > > Mike > - > 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/ I think that life has gotten way easier now that distros can mostly be rescued using CDROMs instead of floppies. :) Hans