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Re: xfs mount warning

To: Chris Szilagyi <szilagy2@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs mount warning
From: Daniel Moore <dxm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:07:33 +1000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 May 2001 21:51:04 -0400." <3B16F508.4DBE1482@xxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Chris Szilagyi writes:
 => Hello, I have a question.  When my system boots, it reports the
 => following errors when it mounts my xfs volumes:
 => 
 => kernel: Partition check:
 => kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
 => kernel: Start mounting filesystem: sd(8,1)
 => kernel: XFS: WARNING: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
 => kernel:
 => kernel: XFS: write access will be enabled during mount.
 => kernel:
 => kernel: Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,1) (dev: 8/1)
 => kernel: Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sd (8,1) (dev: 8/1)
 => kernel: VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
 => 
 => Just wondering why it has to do a recovery,  and if this is common and
 => if it can be fixed.  When I shutdown it unmounts the volumes ok...

If the filesystem was unmounted cleanly, the recovery phase will not
actually do anything. If the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly, then
it cannot be mounted until recovery is performed, hence the warning.

In short - don't worry, this is expected behaviour and is fine.

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