On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > I am testing some kernels for Danny and Thomas on my Thinkpad which runs > 9.1, and if this isn't fixed for 9.2 I'm going to sue someone for the 10 > minutes I lose every time I don't shutdown cleanly (as when testing > swsusp with acpi where on one kernel it doesn't resume and on the other X > hangs just after resuming). An fsck gets forced on the rootfs (whereas it > should just replay the journal), and then you see: > > ***REBOOT LINUX**** > > (note that most users miss this, and see the next message offering to > force fsck again, and if you agree, you will most certainly lose files, > we have a few cases on mandrakeusers.org who have lost most of /etc and > had to reinstall).
Memory says I mailed flepied/cooker about this a few days ago, but perhaps I was dreaming. An fschk on unclean shutdown should really not be suggested on ext3, it just sucks. d.
