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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>,
	ludwig.nussel@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:42:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306174220.GH18188@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204824227.7964.4.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06 13:41 [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices Matthias Koenig
2008-03-06 14:32 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-06 17:04   ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-06 17:23     ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-06 17:42       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-03-07 14:20       ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-07 15:19         ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-03-12 15:59           ` Matthias Koenig
2008-03-12 20:02             ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-12 20:14               ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-13  5:37               ` Dave Kleikamp

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