On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:22:46 +0900, "Csaba Kos" wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Sorry to chime in uncalled, but I noticed that you are trying to mount
>> "/dev/sdb".
>> I have to admit that it has been a while since I last mounted a
>> pendrive from the
>> command line, so I might be wrong, but usually one mounts partitions
>> on the device,
>>  like "/dev/sdb1", and not the device itself.
>
> No, no. That's OK.
> NILFS does not overwrite the partition table block, so is available
> for the device itself.
> Of course, it's unless there's a bug for this usage ;)
Ah, sorry, I didn't know about that and thank you for the heads up. So
sdb and sdb1 is basically equivalent for nilfs? Is this a
nilfs-specific feature?

Regards,

Csaba

>
> Ryusuke
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Csaba Kos
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Milos Jana <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > u...@laptop:~/prog/sources/nilfs-utils-2.0.6$ sudo fsck0.nilfs2 /dev/sdb
>> > [sudo] password for user:
>> > Super-block:
>> >   revision = 2.0, checksum = OK
>> >   blocksize = 4096
>> >   write time = 2008-12-28 09:48:42
>> >   indicated partial segment: blocknr = 4263936
>> >   segnum = 2082, seq = 11746, cno=6661
>> >
>> > empty or bad segment: segnum = 2082, blocknr = 4263936
>> > The latest segment is lost. Trying rollback recovery..
>> > .
>> > Searching the latest checkpoint.
>> > Selected segment: blocknr = 4261888
>> >   segnum = 2081, seq = 11745, cno=6660
>> >   creation time = 2008-12-28 09:48:34
>> > Do you wish to overwrite super block (y/N)? Y
>> > Recovery will complete on mount.
>> > u...@laptop:~/prog/sources/nilfs-utils-2.0.6$ sudo mount /media/pendrive/
>> > mount.nilfs2: Error while mounting /dev/sdb on /media/pendrive: Invalid
>> > argument
>> >
>> > dmesg returns the same errors:
>> > [ 553.003240] NILFS warning: Segment magic number invalid
>> > [ 553.003248] NILFS: error searching super root.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:10:19 +0100, "Milos Jana" wrote:
>> >> > Nilfs-utils compiled properly with patch after following instructions
>> >> > from
>> >> > your previous post. Here is what came out:
>> >> >
>> >> > u...@laptop:~$ sudo fsck0.nilfs2 /dev/sdb
>> >> > Super-block:
>> >> >   revision = 2.0, checksum = OK
>> >> >   blocksize = 4096
>> >> >   write time = 2008-12-28 09:48:42
>> >> >   indicated partial segment: blocknr = 4263936
>> >> >   segnum = 2082, seq = 11746, cno=6661
>> >> >
>> >> > Clean FS.
>> >> >
>> >> > u...@laptop:~$ sudo mount /media/pendrive/
>> >> > mount.nilfs2: Error while mounting /dev/sdb on /media/pendrive: Invalid
>> >> > argument
>> >>
>> >> Hmm, that's weird.
>> >>
>> >> The partition was cleanly unmounted, but the final segment seems not
>> >> to be written to the disk.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe, we need 'force' option to treat such situation.
>> >>
>> >> In the meatime, could you try the following (additional) patch?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Ryusuke
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/sbin/mkfs/fsck0.nilfs2.c b/sbin/mkfs/fsck0.nilfs2.c
>> >> index d3d335f..0d51e54 100644
>> >> --- a/sbin/mkfs/fsck0.nilfs2.c
>> >> +++ b/sbin/mkfs/fsck0.nilfs2.c
>> >> @@ -905,10 +905,12 @@ static void nilfs_fsck(const char *device)
>> >>        print_pseg_message(&pseg_ref, "    indicated partial segment");
>> >>        fputc('\n', stderr);
>> >>
>> >> +#if 0
>> >>        if (le16_to_cpu(sb.s_state) & NILFS_VALID_FS) {
>> >>                fprintf(stderr, "Clean FS.\n");
>> >>                goto out_clean;
>> >>        }
>> >> +#endif
>> >>
>> >>        if (nilfs_do_recovery(devfd, &pseg_ref) == 0)
>> >>                goto out;
>> >
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