On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 21:36 -0500, David Bright wrote: > On Mar 9, 2018, at 17:31, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 17:09 -0500, Mark Johnston wrote: > > > > > > > > > etc/rc.d/fsck doesn't know how to interpret the new exit code and > > > now > > > just drops to a single-user shell when it is encountered. […] > > > > > > Is there any reason etc/rc.d/fsck shouldn't automatically retry > > > (up to > This is, in fact, the reason that I made the change I did. I was > trying to put in a retry loop to rc.d/fsck, but found that I couldn’t > get it to work because fsck and fsck_ffs were not exiting with non- > zero status. The drop to single user is not really due to the > specific (new) error code of 16, it is due to the fact that fsck_ffs > is now exiting with a non-zero status when it hasn’t completely > cleaned the file system; /any/ non-zero status would cause the > current rc.d/fsck script to go to single user. Prior to my change, > fsck_ffs was exiting with a zero status even though it had not > completely cleaned the filesystem and told the user to run it again. > > > > > > > fsck_ffs already has a -R flag to automatically retry, wouldn't > > that be > > a better mechanism for handling this new type of retry? > That’s true; however, there is currently no way to pass that flag > through the filesystem-agnostic fsck wrapper called from rc.d/fsck to > the filesystem-specific fsck_ffs program that it calls. One could > implement a similar flag on the fsck wrapper to be passed along to > the filesystem-specific checker, but I think fsck_ffs is the only one > that currently implements such a flag. > >
fsck -T ffs:-R -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
