Re: Linux 2.4.26 JFS: cannot mount

[Matthias Andree]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

> I recently had a mount failure for a jfs file system at boot-up, mount
> complained about bad options or superblock, but no messages were stuffed
> in dmesg.
> 
> Running fsck.jfs /dev/hda6 without further argument fixed this problem,
> after fsck.jfs, I could mount the file system normally.
> (fsck.jfs version 1.1.1, 17-Dec-2002)

Further info, it turned out that the fsck column for the respective file
system was 0. It has now been fixed to 2.

Question: is the JFS kernel driver supposed to mount a dirty file system
(replaying journal or whatever) without user space help - for instance,
if it's used as root file system?
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