Hi

Emanuel Quass wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right mailinglist, but I hope someone can point
> me the right way.
>
> I just created a snapshot of a reiserfs-filesystem. When I try to mount it,
> the mount fails and there is a entry in /var/log/messages:
>
> Nov 13 16:25:35 server kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device
> 3a:02) ...
> Nov 13 16:25:35 server kernel: clm-2076: device is readonly, unable to
> replay log

> Nov 13 16:25:35 server kernel: Replay Failure, unable to mount
> Nov 13 16:25:35 server kernel: reiserfs_read_super: unable to initialize
> journal space
>
> Does anybody know what this means?
>

reiserfs journal has transactions to be replayed. You should probably create
snapshot at the moment when there are no such transactions. When filesystem is
umounted or remounted read-only - there are no such transactions.
Although, I believe there are people who know more how to create snapshot of
reiserfs device.

Thanks,
vs

>
> Thanks in advance
>
>         Emanuel Quass
>
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