Hello!
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:15:34PM -0500, Steve Pratt wrote:
> During some EVMS testing we have run into an interesting behavior. It
> seems that new mkfsed Reiserfs volumes are not mountable read only. Here
They are. It tries to replay the log and since your snapshot is readonly,
it cannot.
> If the original volume is mounted and unmount prior to taking the snapshot
> everything is fine.
Journal is no longer looks like it can be replayed.
> I know that this is not an important (or even sane) order of events (ie
> snapshotting a never mounted and thus empty volume) but was just something
> that we ran across in testing. Is there some reason that the log is not
> fully initialized by mkfs? fsck says it is fine.
Probably there is no specific reason. And the journal is zeroed on mkfs of
course.
Bye,
Oleg
