Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS and /boot

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jan 2001 18:21:29 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> >  One little thing left to sort... what is 'OR' in scripts?
> 
> <pedant>Which particular language? </pedant>

#!/bin/sh

> > The reason I ask is that on boot my RH system routinely fsck's / before
> > remounting it in rw mode, except if it is an nfs disk:
> >
> > if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" ];
> >
> > I'd like to change it to
> >
> >  [...] if !="nfs" OR !="reiserfs"
> >
> >  but after all the time I've just spent sorting the system out, I don't
> > relish the idea of killing my init scripts!
> 
> Erm.. why are you trying to stop it doing an fsck on a reiserfs
> partition???

 Surely I don't want it fsck'ing a journalling filesystem. From what I
can see in the ReiserFS READMEs reiserfs.fsck is only used to recover
data if hardware dies, the journal is there to deal with filesystem
inconsistancies from unclean shutdowns.

 The fsck actually fails anyway - can't find reiserfs.fsck, although I
have actually built and installed the utils that are part of the
ReiserFS patches.

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