Hello On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:49, Radovan Garabik wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:41:14PM +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: > > Hello > > > > Sorry for delay. I had some problems here > > Never mind, in the meantime I got some external USB harddisks, > created a 1.1TB software RAID (have you seen a RAID over 4 IDE and 3 USB > disks? :-)), copied the partition over and successfully recovered > the data. > > This brings us back to the beginning: IMHO having the option to mount > reiserfs read-only comes sometimes very useful. Apart from emergency > situations, the size of USB mass storage devices is getting big enough > to consider putting better filesystem (instead of VFAT) on them. Many of these > devices have hardware switches to make them read-only, and therefore > unmountable at the current state of affairs. > After clean unmount, you do not need a journal to replay, and since you > indend to mount the fs read only, you do not need a journal at all. > XFS can do it with -o norecovery,ro, why reiserfs can't? >
Reiserfs has to replay journal to get its structures which provide access to data into consistent state. Well, probably, reiserfs could replay journal in memory on -o norecovery,ro.
