[systemd-devel] [PATCH] tmpfiles: move legacy flag-files handling to legacy.conf

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 06.01.13 00:17, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 06.01.2013 00:12, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> > +# /forcefsck, /fastboot and /forcequotecheck are deprecated in favor of the
> > +# kernel command line options 'fsck.mode=force', 'fsck.mode=skip' and
> > +# 'quotacheck.mode=force'
> 
> oh yeah
> 
> add a kernel-param is so much easier as "touch /forcefsck" before reboot

It's not about being easy. it's about making sense.

If you are suspicious that something's wrong with your file system so
that you want to force a fsck the least you should do is write to it by
creating a new file on it. That's easy to see, isn't it?

We support this flag file for compatility reasons. Not because it would
make any sense, because it doesn't.

Lennart

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