On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Mathew Snyder <mathew.sny...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm looking at information for the onerror=panic option. What happens when > I cause a kernel panic besides the system essentially becoming inoperable? > Does it automatically force a fsck on the next reboot? So far, everything > I've seen indicates that it simply creates a crash dump. That really isn't > all that useful in this situation as we know what causes the problem. > fsck and normal shutdown both set a flag in the superblock indicating that the filesystem is clean; if this flag is not set then fsck is forced on reboot. Although, also important here, forcing a panic keeps the system from pointlessly trying to continue and behaving weirdly if the disks vanish out from under it. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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