Re: can't mount XFS from a read-only device

[Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:43:51 +0200 vous écriviez:

> Log recovery is failing on a read-only device.  Try mounting
> with the "ro,norecovery" options.  However, this will give you a
> potentially inconsistent view of the filesystem.
> 
> Are you snapshotting a live filesystem?  If yes, then I'd suggest
> using xfs_freeze -f/snapshot/xfs_freeze -u to get consistent
> snapshots.

Yes, norecovery did it. I did snapshots previously using LVM, but these
are writable, so only "nouuid" is necessary (to mount the original FS
and snapshot side by side).

I thought that xfs_freeze was broken recently?

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