Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
> > When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: > > <from memory> > > file system is mounted read only no journal replay > > > > dmesg contains this line > > "VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly." > > > > What up with these? Do I have something configured wrong > > in /etc/fstab? elsewhere? ignore these messages or > > find the problem? > > Well, the messages themselves are not a problem...depending upon what > happens. The kernel normally mounts the root filesystem read-only > initially. The boot processes is then supposed to remount the > filesystem read-write. In gentoo, this happens in the checkroot init > script, which should be part of boot (rc-update -s | grep checkroot) > > Is your system failing to boot? > Nope, everything works fine. On another system recetnly the journal replay was used to fix a system that lost power inadvertently. It was the first time I noticed reiserfs 'self-healing' or fixing a problem. That got me wondering, as the older file systems use to repair quite often and ever 6months to a year, I'd my running fsck and such, manually..... No problems, just curious if I has something was wrong with my reiserfs. > -Richard > -- [email protected] mailing list
