Re: Linux 2.4.26 JFS: cannot mount

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:14, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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?

No, all of the code to replay the journal is in user space.  JFS does
allow a read-only mount when the superblock is dirty.  This allows
fsck.jfs to replay the journal while the root is mounted read-only.  /
can then be remounted rw after fsck runs.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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