[GFS2] Allow journal recovery on read-only mount
authorAbhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:06:37 +0000 (14:06 -0600)
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:21:22 +0000 (08:21 +0000)
This patch allows gfs2 to perform journal recovery even if it is mounted
read-only. Strictly speaking, a read-only mount should not be writing to
the filesystem, but we do this only to perform journal recovery. A
read-only mount will fail if we don't recover the dirty journal. Also,
when gfs2 is used as a root filesystem, it will be mounted read-only
before being mounted read-write during the boot sequence. A failed
read-only mount will panic the machine during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/recovery.c

index 27c994f2d1f0dd3f4efd1bf6ea668788888e7841..b249e294a95bfa76cde2699716a3e96f817d6e03 100644 (file)
@@ -504,13 +504,21 @@ int gfs2_recover_journal(struct gfs2_jdesc *jd)
                        if (!test_bit(SDF_JOURNAL_LIVE, &sdp->sd_flags))
                                ro = 1;
                } else {
-                       if (sdp->sd_vfs->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
-                               ro = 1;
+                       if (sdp->sd_vfs->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
+                               /* check if device itself is read-only */
+                               ro = bdev_read_only(sdp->sd_vfs->s_bdev);
+                               if (!ro) {
+                                       fs_info(sdp, "recovery required on "
+                                               "read-only filesystem.\n");
+                                       fs_info(sdp, "write access will be "
+                                               "enabled during recovery.\n");
+                               }
+                       }
                }
 
                if (ro) {
-                       fs_warn(sdp, "jid=%u: Can't replay: read-only FS\n",
-                               jd->jd_jid);
+                       fs_warn(sdp, "jid=%u: Can't replay: read-only block "
+                               "device\n", jd->jd_jid);
                        error = -EROFS;
                        goto fail_gunlock_tr;
                }