Re: where are fsck return values documented?

[email protected] (Christos Zoulas)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Organization Astron Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 17,  3:14pm, [email protected] ("Jeremy C. Reed") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: where are fsck return values documented?

| > They are documented now in fsck.8
| 
| Thank you for documenting these.
| 
| Now I noticed it reboots every time (per exit code 4 and rc.d/fsck script) 
| after MARKING FILE SYSTEM CLEAN with "Root filesystem was modified, 
| rebooting ..."
| 
| I don't recall it ever doing that before. I know it had option to reboot 
| before but I don't remember ever noticing that happening to me.
| 
| Something else change to cause this?
| 
| I see the new fsck man page says "and updating the mount was 
| unsuccessful". I just don't think I saw any indication of that -- or maybe 
| I don't know what that means.
| 
| Is this necessary? Why?

The code in question is main.c:

	if (hotroot()) {
		struct statvfs stfs_buf;
		/*
		 * We modified the root.  Do a mount update on
		 * it, unless it is read-write, so we can continue.
		 */
		if (statvfs("/", &stfs_buf) == 0) {
			long flags = stfs_buf.f_flag;
			struct ufs_args args;

			if (flags & MNT_RDONLY) {
				args.fspec = 0;
				flags |= MNT_UPDATE | MNT_RELOAD;
				if (mount(MOUNT_FFS, "/", flags,
				    &args, sizeof args) == 0)
					return FSCK_EXIT_OK;
			}
		}
		if (!preen)
			pwarn("\n***** REBOOT NOW *****\n");
		sync();
		return FSCK_EXIT_ROOT_CHANGED;
	}

I don't see anything wrong with it. Can you add some debugging to see
what's going on?

christos
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