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Re: 1.0 Installer

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 1.0 Installer
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:06:43 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524212751.037873b8@pop.xs4all.nl>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Seth Mos wrote:

> At 14:15 24-5-2001 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >Seth Mos wrote:
> > >
> > > The installer seems to barf when trying to Upgrade a installation of a
> > > system where the XFS filesystem is not clean.
> > > I had to boot the machine another time to recover the filesystem to a 
> > > clean
> > > state before I could try to upgrade it.
> >
> >Hm, we didn't anticipate this scenario.  :)  FWIW, the same thing
> >happens under ext2, if it detects that a filesystem was not cleanly
> >unmounted, the install won't continue.
>
> Uhm, that shouldn't happen with a journaling fs :D

Why not?  The installer doesn't invoke the cleanup routines...it just sees
a filesystem that was not cleanly unmounted.



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