On Tue, February 24, 2009 6:53 am, Doug Ledford wrote: > Is XFS the only one that does the journal recovery on initial mount > read-only during the initfs step, or do other journaled fses do the same > thing? I didn't think ext3 recovered the journal until you switch to a > read-write mount, but I guess I could be wrong. This from fs/ext3/super.c if (EXT3_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER)) { if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) { printk(KERN_INFO "EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery " "required on readonly filesystem.\n"); if (really_read_only) { printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: write access " "unavailable, cannot proceed.\n"); return -EROFS; } printk (KERN_INFO "EXT3-fs: write access will " "be enabled during recovery.\n"); } } suggests that, unfortunately, you are. NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html