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

Theodore Tso
2008-03-06T17:42:35Z

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:23:47AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> 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.

I'm now beginning to understand why SuSE wanted fsck -M/-m (ignore
mounted filesystems). Looks like SuSE has a very strange and
non-standard usage scenario with fsck -A which is *not* just at
boot-time.

So before we try to figure out whether Yet Another FSCK option makes
sense, maybe it would be good to get an explanation exactly *how* SuSE
is using fsck -A, besides just at boot-time?

- Ted