Re: Reiserfs: how to mount without journal replay?

[Alan Cox]

> > 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.

You can get ext2 sufficiently hosed that you can't mount it or run fsck off
it as well. Ok its harder, and "-o mount_me_harder" might be useful for 
reiserfs in this situation.  

There is another reason for doing rescue without disk writeback which is
more pressing - bad disks _often_ go close to read only when they begin
to fail.

Also you need a true mount purely read only (or some kind of initrd deep
voodoo) to use ext3 or reiserfs with swsuspend

Alan