On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. > > What is going on here? > > I figured that perhaps there was a problem with the kernel mounting the > partition itself on bootup, and then having to unmount and remount the > partition as rw (instead of ro), and so changed the read-only option in > /etc/lilo.conf. But to no change. > > Surely more than three people must have a reiserfs root partiton? Could > people please post their experiences and extracts of /etc/fstab please?
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 No problems at all. Stuart > > Matthew > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:10:15AM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm running a woody (as of 2-weeks ago) machine with a 2.4.1-ac2 kernel > > on it. I've got reiserfs compiled in, and all of my file systems (except > > boot) are now running on reiserfs. > > > > I'm running > > > > ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0a-1 *PRE-RELEASE* Tools for ReiserFS > > filesystems > > > > compiled from the sid sources. > > > > Overally, I'm very happy with reiserfs, but there are a few annoyances. > > > > The first is that, presumably resiserfsck doesn't understand some option > > passed to it by /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh, as when it gets to that stage > > it stops and waits until you confirm to do an fsck. Does anyone know a > > way around this, short of commenting out the offending line in > > checkroot.sh (as is doing this a Bad Thing?)? > > > > The other thing that may or may not be a problem is that every time the > > system boots, it seems to replay the transaction logs of all of the > > filesystems. This suggests to me that it's not umounting them correctly. > > Or is this the expected behaviour of reiserfs? > > > > Another thing is it complains when you have the following in your > > /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > > > If you take out the `errors=remount-ro' it seems to work fine. Again, > > I'm not sure if removing this line is going to have disasterous > > consequences, or if it's something that reiserfs doesn't need. > > > > If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very interested. > > > > cheers, > > > > damon > > -- > > Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches > > Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, > > http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... > > PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead" > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >