Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem

[Gilad Rom]

Rickard Dahlstrand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of implications does this have in the long term?
> 
> I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and what harm can cutting the power have on the system?
> 
> I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the boot process?
> 
> Best Regards, Rickard.
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5.2 has background fsck - I don't know if its going to fix all of the
problems that cutting the power is going to introduce, but Its going
to speed up your boot sequence for sure.

Gilad.