On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:59:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:29:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > when ext3 mounts a file system that crashed (was not cleanly umounted) it > > recovers it without the need of the fsck.ext3 helper > > > > but it seems that jfs needs fsck.jfs to recover it, isn't it? > > > > so if the filesystem that needs to be recovered has fsck.jfs, then file system > > can't be recovered... > > > > Am I wrong? > > It's correct (actually the program needed is logredo). > One way to work around this is to put the logredo into the initrd. > > ext2 has the same problem BTW.
ext2, but not ext3 ;-) (you only need the kernel to be loaded from a clean filesystem, eg: read only) I think this should be included in the jfs-root howto and btw also to mention disabling the write-cache of disk drives and controllers anybody writing documentation here? bye! Ulisses Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Computers are useless. They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso ---> Visita http://www.valux.org/ para saber acerca de la <--- ---> Asociación Valenciana de Usuarios de Linux <--- _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion