SOLVED Re: ReiserFS mounting ro on root RAID1 on Debian Woody 3.0

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 11:06, Kourosh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a Debian Woody server with it's root partition on a
> RAID1 volume but I can't seem to get it working.  I want to use ResierFS
> but when I boot the partitions get mounted ro instead of rw.  I can't
> check error messages because /var gets mounted ro as well.
> 
> I have three Seagate 36G 10K rpm scsi disks (sd[abc])  I have four md
> partitions (md[0123]) with root on md0, swap on md1, var on md2, home on
> md3.  I installed to sdc, set up the RAIDs and copied files over, made
> the changes to fstab, lilo.conf, and reran lilo.  I'm using a custom
> 2.4.25 kernel compiled from the unstable kernel-source-2.4.25 deb.  I
> have ReiserFS, ext2/3, md, and all that fun stuff compiled in so I don't
> have to mess with an initrd image.
> 
> I've set up root on RAID1 with ext3 no probs, but would really like to
> use ReiserFS.  Ive used ReiserFS on non-RAID parts no prob, but can't
> seem to get it to play nicely with RAID.
> 
> I really need to get this server up today so may have to go with ext3 if
> I can't get ResierFS working but they have a _lot_ of small files to
> think that ReiserFS would be more efficient.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot?  Anyone done this before?
> 
> Thanks =)

Thanks for everyones suggestions, but especially to Mike Brodbelt who
had a similar problem with XFS, and had the fix.  It turns out that on a
default ext2/3 install the fstab has options that are not correct for
anything other than ext2/3.  In this case, since I started with ext3,
the option "errors=remount-ro" was in the options line.  When the system
was booting up, ReiserFS saw that option, didn't like it, and mounted
itself ro.  Removing that option, and leaving only the defaults option,
fixed everything.  On previous installations I had started with ReiserFS
so the issue never came up.

Thanks for the help =)
-- 
Kourosh <[email protected]>
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