[OLPC-devel] Booting from uncleanly dismounted flash key.

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:44 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> If you have an ext3 image on a flash key and boot via LinuxBIOS, the
> boot fails, and you get dropped into a shell.  fsck -p of the flash key,
> and everything is fine again.
> 
> Is there some way to fix this?  This feels very fragile to me. 

Just to be clear: this is _expected_ behaviour. Ext3 is
backward-compatible with ext2 _if_ it's mounted uncleanly and the
journal is clear. If there are writes outstanding in the journal then it
is not compatible with ext2. Thus the refusal to mount, with an error
message about incompatible features.

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dwmw2