Re: migratepage failures on reiserfs

[Zan Lynx]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:08 -0700, Badari wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:54:05 -0800
[cut]
> > The easy way to narrow our search is to try without data=ordered, it is
> > certainly complicating things.
> >   
> 
> I can try that, its my root filesystem :(

You meant to write "can't?"

Download BusyBox and build it into an initramfs.  It's pretty easy, you
can do it yourself.  Or you could download the Debian mkinitramfs (I
think) package and look at it.  Or the Fedora equivalent (I think
mkinitrd).

Then you can boot into that and mount your / with whatever options you
like.

Here's what I use for my own custom BusyBox initramfs /init script:
#!/bin/sh

get_arg() {
        local arg="$1"
        local x=`cat /proc/cmdline`
        for i in $x; do
                if [ "${i%=*}" = "$arg" ]; then
                        echo ${i#*=}
                        break
                fi
        done
}

do_switch() {
        mount -t proc none /proc
        local root=`get_arg root`
        local flags=`get_arg rootflags`
        mount "$root" /new ${flags:+-o "$flags"}
        umount /proc
        cd /new
        exec switch_root . /sbin/init
}

do_shell() {
        exec /sbin/init
}

# The following will wait 2 seconds for Enter before booting.
trap "do_switch" ALRM

target=$$
( sleep 2; kill -ALRM $target ) &
alarm=$!

echo -n "Press Enter for a shell: "
while read action; do
        kill $alarm
        break
done
do_shell

-- 
Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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