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Re: 1.0 Installer

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 1.0 Installer
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:02:05 -0500
Cc: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524212751.037873b8@pop.xs4all.nl> <4.3.2.7.2.20010524222139.0394e2d0@pop.xs4all.nl>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Seth Mos wrote:
 
> How can one "see" a fs that is not cleanly unmounted? I mean what does
> anaconda do to check for that?
> With ext2 you get a warning, journaling fs on the other hand know what to do.
> It would be great if it could just recover the fs on mount and continue.

I'd have to check, but anaconda may just say "if mount has _any_ output,
then assume it's a dirty filesystem, and bail out."  Since it was
originally designed to work only with ext2, this would be a decent
assumption.  We could make it smarter for the XFS installer, but that's
gonna be a ways down the priority list.  :)

-Eric

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