On 11/13/13, 6:59 AM, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hm, even in single user with a RO root filesystem, changing filesystem > on-disk filesystem structures without have them replied in memory looks > dangerous to me, you will keep data consistency since the fs is RO, but how > about memory? You might have a discrepancy between memory and disk metadata > contents causing in-memory only problems? > The possibility is already there; it's just a question of whether we suggest using it. And my other patch suggests an immediate reboot when it's done, for just those reasons. A user needs some way to repair their root disk if they can't boot a rescue environment... and ext2/3/4 have been doing this since forever. I know, none of the above are exactly arguments that its' safe... :) -Eric > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:13:17AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> How dangerous is dangerous? >> >> We could offer the suggestion of a "-d" repair, if we're >> in single-user mode with the root fs mounted readonly. >> >> This change suggests -d to repair any RO mounted fs. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> >> diff --git a/repair/init.c b/repair/init.c >> index c3f380b..a7a7613 100644 >> --- a/repair/init.c >> +++ b/repair/init.c >> @@ -97,8 +97,17 @@ xfs_init(libxfs_init_t *args) >> else >> args->isreadonly = LIBXFS_EXCLUSIVELY; >> >> - if (!libxfs_init(args)) >> + if (!libxfs_init(args)) { >> + /* would -d be an option? */ >> + if (!no_modify && !dangerously) { >> + args->isreadonly = (LIBXFS_ISINACTIVE | >> + LIBXFS_DANGEROUSLY); >> + if (libxfs_init(args)) >> + fprintf(stderr, >> +_("Unmount or use -d to repair a read-only mounted filesystem\n")); >> + } >> do_error(_("couldn't initialize XFS library\n")); >> + } >> >> ts_create(); >> increase_rlimit(); >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xfs mailing list >> xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs