Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?

[Mike Fedyk]

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