From: Abhijith Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch allows gfs2 to perform journal recovery even if it is mounted read-only. Strictly speaking, a read-only mount should not be writing to the filesystem, but we do this only to perform journal recovery. A read-only mount will fail if we don't recover the dirty journal. Also, when gfs2 is used as a root filesystem, it will be mounted read-only before being mounted read-write during the boot sequence. A failed read-only mount will panic the machine during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/recovery.c b/fs/gfs2/recovery.c index 27c994f..b249e29 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/recovery.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/recovery.c @@ -504,13 +504,21 @@ int gfs2_recover_journal(struct gfs2_jdesc *jd) if (!test_bit(SDF_JOURNAL_LIVE, &sdp->sd_flags)) ro = 1; } else { - if (sdp->sd_vfs->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) - ro = 1; + if (sdp->sd_vfs->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) { + /* check if device itself is read-only */ + ro = bdev_read_only(sdp->sd_vfs->s_bdev); + if (!ro) { + fs_info(sdp, "recovery required on " + "read-only filesystem.\n"); + fs_info(sdp, "write access will be " + "enabled during recovery.\n"); + } + } } if (ro) { - fs_warn(sdp, "jid=%u: Can't replay: read-only FS\n", - jd->jd_jid); + fs_warn(sdp, "jid=%u: Can't replay: read-only block " + "device\n", jd->jd_jid); error = -EROFS; goto fail_gunlock_tr; } -- 1.5.1.2