[systemd-devel] no fsck at boot

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:12 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 
> Well, the initramfs should mount the rootfs readonly, and then it can
> read it's /etc/fstab (and the /forcefsck file) and determine if any
> further action should be taken before doing any kind of pivotroot type
> stuff to transition to the host OS. This should all be handled by your
> initramfs really. Not sure what systemd bits do that in a systemd+dracut
> combo tho', as not fiddled with it for a while!

These are selective extractions, but are in order. I see no evidence the initramfs attempts to mount root. The first mount that happens is initiated by systemd.

[    1.156856] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to load configuration for systemd-fsck-root.service: No such file or directory
[    1.158494] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: Installed new job sysroot.mount/start as 30
[    1.158510] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: Installed new job systemd-fsck at dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d372e5d1\x2d386f\x2d460c\x2db036\x2d611469e0155e.service/start as 32
[    1.591769] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: About to execute: /bin/mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/d372e5d1-386f-460c-b036-611469e0155e /sysroot -t auto -o subvol=root,ro
[    1.591940] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: Forked /bin/mount as 165
[    1.592109] rawhide.localdomain systemd[1]: sysroot.mount changed dead -> mounting
[    1.592299] rawhide.localdomain systemd[165]: Executing: /bin/mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/d372e5d1-386f-460c-b036-611469e0155e /sysroot -t auto -o subvol=root,ro

If I use rd.break on kernel command line, the fsck job was initiated well before /sysroot was mounted ro.

Chris Murphy