rhgb-0.10.2-1

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
> >>Hmmm... I think the best way to handle that would be to put a flag when
> >>the computer has started cleanly and remove it when it has be shut down
> >>cleanly. This, way, if it kernel-panics or crashes, the flag is still
> >>there.
> >
> >
> > I guess you misunderstood what I meant.  I cannot see how you can
> > handle the panics when you have no write access anywhere.  The
>
> Looks like you missed it. This flag is set on boot, and cleared on
> shutdown. If a panic happens, it's not cleared, and stiull set next
> boot. During boot if the flag is set, you know you had a problem in the
> shudown.

I'm talking about when the kernel is still loading, and you have
no writeable mounted filesystem to set the flag.

> Don't we already have similar flags in / now?
> Like .autofsck, which is cleared on shutdown/unmount.
> Other flags I see in a quick glance at rc.sysinit include
> forcefsck, fsckoptions, fastboot.
>
> 	-Thomas
>
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behdad,
who is going to study after finishing this mail.