Bug#393312: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#393312: fsck should run at shutdown, not startup, when possible

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Jason Spiro wrote:
> 2006/10/16, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>:
> >This has to be made optional.  Many people want their machines to shut down
> >*fast* far more than they want their machines to boot up fast.
> 
> Is this true even for modern home machines?

Yes.

> If so, why is it true?

Emergency shutdowns, laptop usage patterns, etc.

> me. I want to check my email, but I sometimes have to sit and wait for
> the machine to fsck before I can do so.

Suspend it to RAM instead... and when it gets to the point that one can
trust it enough, suspend it to disk.  It will be faster than anything we
could ever come up for the boot sequence on standard BIOSes (Linux BIOS is
something else, though).

The point is: fsck during shutdown must be optional.

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  Henrique Holschuh