RFE: autofsck

[Ahmed Kamal]

Since on similar topics we could argue forever, is it reasonable to have a
poll system where devs/users would vote on such questions like should such a
feature be the default or not ?

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> > Just to remind you, what people have a problem with is not running manual
> > fsck's on certain filesystems. People have a problem with machines being
> stuck
> > in single user mode waiting for manual intervention leading "fsck -y"
> anyway
> > on the root filesystem.
> >
> > If my remote machine comes back, starts sshd, and then has /home not
> mounted
> > because of an INCOSISTENCT FILESYSTEM error, I'm more then happy to run
> fsck -y
> > manually.
>
> As a bit of a tangent, if you see this fairly often, any idea why?
> Journaling should in general protect you from needing any sort of fsck
> after a power loss or oops; that's what they're for, right.  I'd be
> curious to know what sorts of corruptions you wind up finding.
>
> How the corruption gets coped with once found is one point worth
> discussing, but where's it coming from in the first place?  My guess is
> it's lack of barrier writes, but it's worth getting to the bottom of it,
> and hopefully this will make the choice of e2fsck parameters less
> relevant.  :)
>
> -Eric
>
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