On 07/19/2012 09:49 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 10:44 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>> On 18/07/12 23:02, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> On 07/18/2012 02:50 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      I don't know the exact number, I think it is 27 reboots,
>>>> your boot will automatically drop to an FSCK.  In RHEL5,
>>>> your would see a status bar showing you progress.  In 6,
>>>> you get no indication that an FSCK is happening and you
>>>> think you are frozen.  The temptation to throw the power
>>>> switch is overwhelming.
>>>
>>> I can't speak to the lack of status, but you can disable the automatic
>>> fsck with:
>>>
>>> tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/....
>>>
>>> This is pretty much done automatically now for any filesystems that the
>>> install makes, but not ones that you create later.
>>
>> If using ext{2,3,4}, I would strongly recommend *against* doing this.
>> Running fsck from time to time isn't a bad thing.  It can surely happen
>> that it finds some things which should be fixed.  If this is needed fro
>> xfs, I dunno.  For reiserfs it is not needed, it will take care of this
>> on its own - and really needed, it'll scream loudly and you won't be
>> able to mount that partition/lv and this fix might take hours to
>> complete.  Regarding other file systems, I have no experience.
>>
>> Removing these fsck's is like skipping taking your car to a car check
>> every now and then.  You car may run for a long way without a service.
>> But when it is really needed, it can take a long time to fix and might
>> be more costly compared to if you did this regularly ... and if you want
>> a reliable server, having a little maintenance downtime couple of times
>> during a year might not be such a bad investment - in the long run.
>>
>> Just my 2cents
>
> Rebooting a critical server only to have it be down unexpectedly for a
> long period of time while it does a filesystem check is a problem too.
> While periodically running fsck on your system may be a good idea, it
> should be done at predictable times.
>

RFE: May we have "shutdown -F" back?
     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733874
Don't waste your time looking, the answer was "no".