Bug#805348: e2fsprogs: filesystem often can't be checked using systemd

[Theodore Ts'o]

reassign 805348 systemd
thanks

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 08:21:56AM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
>* What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> systemd should be waiting until fsck finishes

How long systemd waits for fsck to finish is up to systemd.  It's not
up to e2fsprogs.

A smart thing to do would be to be able to mark a file system as being
"optional" (e.g., it doesn't matter when the user's video or music
archive is available, so the check should continue in the background
and then the file system mounted when it is done).  But that would be
a systemd feature request.

The bare minimum is that for a critical (but large) file system which
takes a long time in checking, such as if the user configures a
multi-terabyte /home or /var/www partition or some such, is for the
system to give up until the system is fully completely checked.

But that would be up to systemd-fstab-generator(8) to do the right
thing, in either case.

- Ted

Bug#805348: e2fsprogs: filesystem often can't be checked using systemd

[Thomas Schmidt]

Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.42.13-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

using systemd, fsck takes too much time, so systemd is giving up

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?

using systemd?

   * What was the outcome of this action?

fs is corrupted

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

systemd should be waiting until fsck finishes

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), 
(500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii  e2fslibs1.42.13-1
ii  libblkid1   2.27.1-1
ii  libc6   2.19-22
ii  libcomerr2  1.42.13-1
ii  libss2  1.42.13-1
ii  libuuid12.27.1-1
ii  util-linux  2.27.1-1

e2fsprogs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests:
pn  e2fsck-static  
pn  gpart  
ii  parted 3.2-10

-- no debconf information

[  135.640989] EXT4-fs (sdc3): mounting ext2 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[  135.670994] EXT4-fs (sdc3): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck 
is recommended
[  135.793096] EXT4-fs (sdc3): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)