Re: [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices

Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-06T17:23:54Z

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:04 +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> > Should field 8 of /etc/fstab (fs_passno) be zero for these mount points?
> > Is there any reason for it to be anything different?
>
> Why? zero would mean that they should never get checked.
> I think it is reasonable to have the choice to get your crypto
> filesystems checked. Current practise for SuSE has been to allow
> only 0, but checked this filesystem anyway, which has lead to complaints.
> So we want to do this more consistent.

Zero tells fsck not to check the filesystem during reboot. It's what
tells fsck -A which filesystems to check. If we don't expect the
filesystem to be check-able during that phase, a non-zero value won't
have any real meaning.
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center