[Bug 361023] Re: JFS root FS mounted read-only on battery power after unclean umount

[Clint Byrum]

I don't believe 9.10 and later have this script, as mountall decides
when to run fsck on the root filesystem. With Hardy's desktop support
ending in less than 6 months, I'd rather not have peoples' limited time
spent testing this fix to Hardy, so closing as Won't Fix.

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  JFS root FS mounted read-only on battery power after unclean umount

Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  If a JFS FS is ever unmounted unclearly, the filesystem needs to be
  checked. If the FS is mounted without a fsck, the FS will be read
  only. The effect is that if an install with a JFS root FS ever
  crashes, looses power, or otherwise shuts down uncleanly and the
  system is then booted up without AC power, the system will silently
  and without warning mount the root FS read only and fail to start a
  variety of applications, most notably GDM. If a user does not know how
  to fsck their root by hand, the system will become unusable until the
  system is booted with AC power present.

  A fsck on JFS takes well under a minute to run so concerns about
  battery power are less important than they might be in ext3. I see no
  reason to have the checkroot.sh script always run the fsck if the
  system is JFS. This will address fix this issue for JFS laptop users.

  To reproduce the bug: (1) unmount JFS root FS uncleanly; (2) boot
  system without AC power.

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