Tom Sightler wrote:
> Vincent Cojot wrote:
>> Nice trick. Just one more thing: do we know if,
when the fscked filesystem was
>> 'modified', then the rc scripts will trap that and
still 'reboot' the server (
>> if you have such a /etc/stsconfig/autofsck)?
Answering yes automagically is
>> great but I 'd like to make sure the system reboots
fine before entering
>> interactive if a filesystem was 'modified' by
ad-hoc on-boot fsck.
>
> The default behavior of rc.sysinit is to reboot if fsck
returns an error
> level of 2 or 3 (error level 2 from fsck means
"System should be
> rebooted" while error level 3 is the combination
of error level 1 and 2
> and means "File system errors corrected, system
should be rebooted").
>
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> You wouldn't want a boot loop either.
>
> It's possible it could lead to a boot loop, but only in
the case that
> fsck thinks it fixed everything when it runs on every
boot, but then
> really doesn't. If fsck exits with an error level of 4
or higher, which
> I believe that it should if it knows it was unable to
correct all of the
> errors, then it will still dump to a prompt. I'm not
saying a boot loop
> couldn't happen, but I think it would be rare,
especially assuming the
> system is properly partitioned to be robust against
major corruption.
>
> I didn't mean to imply it was a perfect solution, but
just wanted to
> offer up an option that might be "good
enough" and is free and easy to
I wasn't casting nasturtiums, just posting a warning of
something that
is all too commonly overlooked when implementing a
solution.
I have seen bootloops: this year, in Windows XP, and in
Linux (Fedora).
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