Re: bin/41689: fsck_root: Boot fails with root-on-nfs

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41689; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/41689: fsck_root: Boot fails with root-on-nfs
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:48:53 +0200

 On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost wrote:
 > /etc/rc.d/fsck_root assumes / to be always on disk.
 > 
 > It runs fsck / unconditionally.
 > If root is on nfs, fsck fails with error code 1.
 > fsck_root then prints:
 > 
 >     "Unknown error 1; help!"
 
 If you don't want to fsck "/", then put a zero value in the
 fs_passno column of /etc/fstab.
 
 > +       1)      # OK, / is on nfs
 > +               return
 > +               ;;
 
 I don't think that's the right solution.  exit 1 does not necessarily mean
 that everything is OK.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)