5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Esa" == Esa Karkkainen <ejk at iki.fi> writes:

Esa> No, I don't use snapshots any more. I did use snapshots via
Esa> bgfsck, but now I have disabled bgfsck, because for some reason I
Esa> got panics which seemed to be related to bgfsck.

I think it would be _very_ helpful if bgfsck could be made to only run
once.  Currently, you can have the following:

crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck -> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash

(loop until manual intervention)

... this happens when bgfsck can't fix something.  I'd like to see:

crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck (but mark disk as having tried)
      -> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash -> boot -> fsck in foreground
      -> multiuser

... but I believe this would require fsck support unless the startup
scripts were writing to the filesystem to indicate no bgfsck.

Dave.

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