Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:44 -0700


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Then suse's use of reiserfs is pretty b0rken. Putting reiserfsck on /
> > > partition is pretty useless -- if it crashes during mount you can't
> > > repair it.
> >
> > Every filesystem has this problem, if the root directory gets hosed you have to
> > use the CDROM.
> > Booting from CDROM with SuSE is not such a problem.
>
> ext2 is willing to mount ro even with known inconsistencies. SuSE 7.1
> does not come with 'live filesystem' and install cd does not have
> reiserfsck on it. Too bad. You have to install somewhere to be able to
> run reiserfsck on suse7.1.

Hmm. Is there any chance of *not* replaying the log on mount-ro, and using
a combination of on disk meta-data, and journal?
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