Constant rebooting after power loss

George Kontostanos gkontos.mail at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 14:29:23 UTC 2011


Those are workarounds. A system should not reach to a point where it doesn't
come up because of a pending fsck. And even if it does console access must
be ensured. My point is that by disabling these you might bring it up but
you seriously risk data integrity.

Regards

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> On 01/04/2011 16:47, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
>
>  If you want to get rid of the reboot loop, set:
>>
>> background_fsck="NO"
>>
>> Then it will either come up, or ask for help if anything fails.
>>
>
> I realise that people like having systems that come up quickly after a
> crash, but is it worth reconsidering disabling background fsck by default
> since it can cause issues like this?
>
> --
> Bruce Cran
>
>


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George Kontostanos
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