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Hi Roy,

One of the servers I manage died today as a consequence of the openrc allowing 
the system to boot with filesystem errors uncorrected.

Here's a relevant part from /etc/init.d/fsck:

        4)      if [ "${RC_UNAME}" = "Linux" ]; then
                        ewend 1 "Fileystem errors left uncorrected"
                        return 0
                else
                        ewend 1 "Filesystems repaired, but reboot needed"
                        _reboot
                fi;;

I'm wondering why "Filesystem errors left uncorrected" is somehow ok?

This is what actually happened:

* Checking local filesystems ...
root contains a file system with errors, check forced.
root: Deleted inode 84 has zero dtime.  FIXED.
root: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.

root: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
        (i.e., without -a or -p options)
* Fileystem errors left uncorrected
 [ !! ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write...
 [ ok ]

The result is a completely messed up fs.

I'm using openrc-0.4.3 and baselayout-2.0.0 on gentoo.


Thanks!

                                    Elvis