XFS check script on boot?

[Marco Gaiarin <gaio@sv.lnf.it>]

I've recently suffered an XFS corruption on a remote server (intel,
debian etch, custom 2.6.X kernel): at some point some process hit an
XFS inconsistency on /var, so /var desappear and suddenly machine
refuse to work.

Being a remote machine with no full-knowledge people there, i've
rebooted it, entered in ssh and stopped all services and tasks,
arriving at the point where i can remount /var readonly.
So i was able to xfs_check the partition (that confirmed me the
corruption), but i was not able to unmount /var, so i was forced to use
'-d' options of xfs_repair. That indeed worked. ;)


This was the first tile i hit a xfs filesystem corruption, so i'm
asking why seems there's no /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh-like script that
check and repair XFS filesystem at boot.

Probably doing fully automatically it is a bit too dangerous, but an
approach like 'normal' fsck, eg if filesystem are too corrupt (it need
'-f' option) ask admin password and force to do it by hand, seems to me
simple and effective.


Someone can explain me? Thanks.

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