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

[Jason Spiro]

2006/10/18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>:
> 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).

Good idea. Of course, the catch is, suspend doesn't work on all machines. :-)

> The point is: fsck during shutdown must be optional.

Fair enough.

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