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.



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