Re: reiserfs can't replay on READ-ONLY partition

[Nikita Danilov]

Jeff Chua writes:
 > 
 > I wanted to have Read-Only partition startup in /etc/fstab, but
 > reiserfs can't seems to replay the log if the partition is mounted
 > as read-only.
 > 
 > It gives a warning, and I don't think it's replaying the logs at all,

If you are talking about message

"Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem"

then, journal is replayed anyway.

 > 
 > It seems so because if I mount, unmount the partition, repeatedly, it'll
 > keep warning and replaying the logs everytime. Only until I mount the
 > partition as read-write will the actual log be replayed ... this seems so,
 > as the moment I mount it as rw, unmount it, and mount it again, the replay
 > goes away and the partition get mounted very fast.
 > 

Nikita.

 > Thanks,
 > Jeff
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