JFS support in init scripts?

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 11:28 -0500, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
> > I have several large JFS partitions andon every fecdora (and in rawhide
> > now) there is an issue that if the machien is uncleanly shut down, I have
> > to mount the drives manually at boot-up.
> >
> > To be clear:
> >
> > JFS doesn't auto-replay journal upon mounting, you have to run fsck.jfs to
> > do that.  I added hacks to my rc.local, but that doesn't help anyone else.
>
> I have the exact same problem (also had it with FC2). It would be nice
> if other filesystems then ext3 are automatically checked as well. But
> even ext3 checking probably needs some works, 8 out of 10 times it ends
> up with saying (something like) "an error occurred checking the
> drive..please do it again manually". This is mostly a bogus error,
> checking manually doesn't reveal any other errors. Not really rock
> solid...

Interestingly, I havn't seen this happen, but then again, I only use ext3
for root and boot partitions.

> Jurgen
>
  -- noah silva