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low

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 109

strange filesystem behavior on boot

ever since i upgraded my kernel to .27, i have had a few issues booting my system. first, i use xfs and every time i boot the two messages "Starting XFS recovery..." and "Ending XFS recovery..." appear, indicating the filesystem was unmounted correctly even though i powered the machine off correctly. also, the root partition is always mounted as read only which throws a lot of errors when the initscripts try to touch and chmod files. the partition is never remounted as read write. however, if i change the kernel line in grubs menu.lst to "rw," the "Mounting Root Read-Only" init line fails (duh) and the XFS recovery lines are still there.

Last edited by low (2008-10-16 00:46:31)

sirocco

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Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 149

Re: strange filesystem behavior on boot

ever since i upgraded my kernel to .27
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also, the root partition is always mounted as read only which throws a lot of errors when the initscripts try to touch and chmod files. the partition is never remounted as read write.
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The same with my system.
/ xfs defaults,logbufs=8 0 1

Update:
see, for example
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … em-676304/

Today I played a bit with the options and found a workaround. I removed all options except for defaults. After a reboot I had write access.

Last edited by sirocco (2008-10-16 05:13:22)

low

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 109

Re: strange filesystem behavior on boot

so no luck if i want to use those mount options?

my fstab entries are '/ xfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 0 1' and '/home xfs defaults,noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 0 2'

Last edited by low (2008-10-17 00:05:36)

apaige

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 96

Re: strange filesystem behavior on boot

Remove logbufs for now, it's a bug in the new kernel. There's also a bug regarding barriers (dmesg outputs "xlog_iodone: Barriers are no longer supported by device. Disabling barriers"); there's a patch available for that one.

low

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 109

Re: strange filesystem behavior on boot

ok thanks, out of curiosity with rw as a grub option harm the system in anyway or is it just precautionary?