Upstart upstream took a decision to abandon one of its goals of userland
tools compatible with other init systems.  In practice, it never got any
further than implementing tools somewhat like the SysV tools that were
in Debian (which were even different from those in RedHat), and these
had plenty of obscure features like "-F", "shutdown.allow", etc.

Most of these obscure features are not something we would want to
support in the future; fsck in particularly is slowly undergoing big
changes that will mean you can do it on the fly, with no need to reboot,
etc. so why support -F ?  Likewise shutdown.allow is better handled
nowadays through PolicyKit.

Thus the decision was taken for Upstart's userland tools to be native,
and provide the minimum functionality that a user might expect from
them, without bloating them.

Other functionality (like forced fsck) can be provided elsewhere.  As
Kyle says above, simply touch a file before calling shutdown - a GUI can
do this.

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shutdown missing -F (force fsck) option
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74139
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