Anton Aylward wrote:
Philippe Andersson said the following on 09/09/2010 10:17 AM:
Hello list,
I recently had to get rid of the boot splashscreen on my home server. Meaning that I now get to see the console boot messages each time, and I noticed something quite alarming: an fsck and a transaction log replay takes place each time the server boots, even though I take great care to always shut it down cleanly.
Yes, so?
You don't say what file system. Quoting from memory: / (reiser) /boot (ext2) /home (reiser) /data (reiser)
My ReiserFS do that on every boot regardless. Following a clean shutdown I see the reboot saying
Replaying journal: Done. I see hundreds of log entries being applied in addition to that message. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's normal behaviour after a supposedly clean shutdown.
Its the nature of the reiser.fsck that runs at boot.
Sure.
There's nothing "in" the journal to reply, because there was a clean shutdown. In my case there is. Every time.
Now if you get a long list of what is being replayed then you know that your shutdown wasn't really clean, that the file system wasn't properly unmounted.
That was my whole point -- my apologies that it wasn't clear enough. The server is always shutdown properly, either from the KDM menu entries or from the command-line.
If that's the case then you should investigate WHY the file system isn't being properly unmounted on shutdown.
That's the aspect of the question being discussed in the bug I referred to (and commented on). Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com>