Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?

Hans Reiser
2001-08-30T21:35:47Z

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
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I think that life has gotten way easier now that distros can mostly be rescued
using CDROMs instead of floppies.

:)

Hans