ext2 and ext3 run periodic file system checks every X days and Y mounts. When there is a lot of data, these checks take a long time. In a product scenario, these delays are unacceptable on bootup, but would be acceptable at the end of the day during shutdown. Here is a patch to make checkfs optionally run during shutdown as well as startup. This is off by default. Although it might make sense to additionally make /forcefsck trigger these checks during shutdown when the option is enabled, this is not practical as the filesystems have been remounted read-only so removing forcefsck after doing the checks is not realistic. For now, no checks are run on shutdown when /forcefsck is present.
Created attachment 100578 [details, diff] patch for 1.12 branch
Created attachment 100579 [details, diff] patch for trunk
perhaps better to put the config option in /etc/conf.d/checkfs
Created attachment 100872 [details, diff] use checkfs conf.d file Try this patch which uses a conf.d file for the setting. /etc/conf.d/rc is polluted enough as it is
Having some troubles because checkfs tries to set up already existing dm partitions. Not sure why I didn't see this before. Will continue looking tomorrow.
Works nicely, thanks! The dm-start problem is unrelated to baselayout but I've provided a patch for it in bug #153678
Fixed in our svn trunk, will appear in baselayout-1.13.0_alpha5
Created attachment 100967 [details, diff] backport to 1.12 branch in case it helps anyone
