Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
On boot, the init script "checkfs.sh" executes fsck on all devices in fstab. In case a device doesn't exist or can't be accessed, fsck will fail with an error. The situation that made this an issue for me is the following (addmitted: a corner case, and not an example of good practise). I have an LVM VG that spans both local storage and an iscsi device. To avoid mounting it too early in the boot process, there is the _netdev mount option in fstab which makes sure the device only gets mounted after bringing up the network. So devices get mounted, open-iscsi logs in to its target, then the iscsi devices are mounted. There seems to be no equivalent mechanism for fsck however. Since the VG is partly local, it is already detected in the lvm init script. There is one LV that uses space on (is entirely on) the iscsi volume and thus it isn't activated. Enter the checkfs.sh init script: fsck sees the device and can't check it. I guess if it is desirable to take situations like this into account, it could also be solved by being able to choose VGS which should not be activated on boot (N.B. the open-iscsi init script can activate VGs by itself as a configuration option). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii coreutils 8.13-3.5 ii debianutils 4.3.2 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ii mount 2.20.1-5.3 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1.1 ii psmisc 22.19-1+deb7u1 initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
