Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:13:06 -0500


On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:05:51 PM +0100 Xuan Baldauf
<xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org> wrote:

> Mhhh. It's a busy server from which I am about 700km away. I don't like to
> restart it now. (Especially because it cannot boot from hard disk, only
> from floppy disk, due to bios problems). But I'd be happy if following is
> true:
>
> (1) Enabling "-o notails" is possible at runtime, i.e. "mount / -o
> remount,notails" works and

Nope.

> (2) Notails is compatible with all the tails found on disk (so notails
> only changes the way the disk is written, not the way the disk is read).
>

This part is true.

Honestly, I don't want to do this kind of debugging on a busy server.
Sure, it is completely safe, etc, etc, but ...

We'll get the info elsewhere, leave the busy servers out of it ;-)

-chris

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