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SubjectRe: Fw: fsck fails to detect uncleanly unmounted fs on 2.1.7x
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>At 8:04 PM -0500 1/15/98, Sergei Viznyuk wrote:
>>>On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:45:12PM -0500, Sergei Viznyuk wrote:
>>>
>>>> The subject says it.
>>>> I found out that if I pull the plug on my linux box
>>>> without doing shutdown first, the subsequent
>>>> fsck -a upon bootup does not run the
>>>> fs check, as it used to with earlier kernels
>>>Not a kernel problem. This message is printed by your startup scripts
>>>when it detects some magic file (usually /fastboot or /etc/fastboot)
during
>>>the boot process. The file should be deleted during startup and
>>>recreated during a clean shutdown. As it looks the file is never
>>>being removed on your box.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>
>>Please give me some credit. I didn't really quote
>>the message from fsck (e2fsck).
>>It just says the filesystem is clean plus some usual numbers.
>>And believe me, IT IS a kernel problem.
>>If I boot 2.1.57 kernel, fsck runs OK and does
>>detect uncleanly unmounted filesystem.
>>In 2.1.7x kernels it does not, no matter
>>how hard I crash the system.
>>Someone screwd up something in ext2 code
>>in recent kernels.
>
>Where x >= 2. I saw that with 2.1.72 repeatedly now (after a panic() while
>mounting the root fs the fsck was skipped afterwards).


Cool.

2.1.77 (and all earlier 2.1.7x kernels I tried) have the same bug.

Just how long would it take for the ones
who screwd up ext2 code to notice it ?

Cordially,
Serge



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