[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#701956: btrfs can't fsck /run/rootdev on boot

Sun Mar 17 12:56:22 UTC 2013

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 07:50:37AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> works with systemd, it's sysvinit specific.

Systemd skips the root file system check if the major device number of
the root file system is 0 (which is what btrfs reports):
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/fsck/fsck.c#n297

The same could be done in sysvinit. Possible (untested) patch attached.
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