Bug 291654 – new /etc/init.d/fsck in openrc-0.5.2 supremely inconvenient to JFS users

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ben Blum 2009-11-03 01:34:32 UTC]

The version of /etc/init.d/fsck in openrc-0.5.2 has a check for _on_ac_power, which makes the boot sequence skip fscking partitions if the machine is running on battery. However, if a machine's root partition is JFS, it *needs* to be fscked before mounting rw if it was last unmounted uncleanly. This leads to a nasty trap in which a JFS user cannot properly boot their laptop until they plug into AC power.

A good fix would be to set an option for this in /etc/conf.d/fsck which allows users to set this behaviour if they like, and go with the default of "don't skip".

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2009-11-05 00:49:07 UTC]

for something which is required (like JFS), a config option isnt really acceptable.  it should just work here.

[Comment 2 Roy Marples 2009-11-10 20:34:33 UTC]

I concur as fsck is normally a non-op on recent fs's. I still dunno why ext3+ does a full fsck at 30 mounts by default.

I'll add a toggle that defaults to running fsck.

[Comment 3 Roy Marples 2009-11-10 22:57:25 UTC]

http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc/changeset/d29daf395299fc97b8e13676bc282800a8bddae8

[Comment 4 Ben Blum 2009-11-10 23:46:11 UTC]

thanks :)

[Comment 5 William Hubbs 2009-11-11 00:00:14 UTC]

This has been fixed upstream.