From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] New fsck option to ignore device-mapper crypto devices Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:23:47 -0600 Message-ID: <1204824227.7964.4.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> References: <1204813967.8679.28.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , ludwig.nussel@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Matthias Koenig Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:33531 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753666AbYCFRXy (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:23:54 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m26HNnOo019024 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:23:49 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m26HNnUQ226628 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:23:49 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m26HNmTa014797 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:23:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:04 +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote: > Dave Kleikamp writes: > > Should field 8 of /etc/fstab (fs_passno) be zero for these mount points? > > Is there any reason for it to be anything different? > > Why? zero would mean that they should never get checked. > I think it is reasonable to have the choice to get your crypto > filesystems checked. Current practise for SuSE has been to allow > only 0, but checked this filesystem anyway, which has lead to complaints. > So we want to do this more consistent. Zero tells fsck not to check the filesystem during reboot. It's what tells fsck -A which filesystems to check. If we don't expect the filesystem to be check-able during that phase, a non-zero value won't have any real meaning. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center