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
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