Bug 34307

Summary:	checkroot is before hdparm resulting in slow fscks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arthur Britto <ahbritto>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arthur Britto 2003-11-24 17:35:04 UTC

Some hard drives do not automatically start with DMA on.  hdparm allows the user
to have DMA turned on at boot.  Unfortunately, checkroot has a depend of "*"
this  causes it to fsck the root file system before hdparm runs.

hdparm should run before checkroot or some of hdparms functionality should be
incorporated into checkroot.
--
Some might argue that it is safer to run with DMA off especially when doing and
fsck.   However, (1) the drive may perform reliably with DMA, (2) operation with
out DMA can be 10x slower, and (3) Gentoo is a bout giving user choices.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. rc-update add hdparm boot
2. reboot


Actual Results:  
hdparm runs after checkroot.

Expected Results:  
hdparm run before checkroot.

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-26 11:55:57 UTC

Do:

 # echo "hdparm checkroot hostname modules checkfs localmount" > /etc/runlevels/boot/.critical