On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> The last thing before setting tty flags is the fsck of disks.  If the
> machine prints fscking sd3a before sd2d then the machine always hangs.  If
> the machine prints fscking sd2d before sd3a then the machine always goes on
> to complete a normal boot [...]
> [...]
> /dev/sd0a       /               ffs     rw 1 1
> /dev/sd1b       none            swap    sw 0 0
> /dev/sd2d       /users          ffs     rw 1 2
> /dev/sd3a       /mirror         ffs     rw 1 0
> /dev/sd3b       /usr/vice       ffs     rw 0 0

eeeeeeeeeeeK!

that last column tells fsck the _order_ to fsck things in.  to tell you
the truth, i'm not even sure what a `0' in that column does, but i can
assure you that the root fs should be `1', and all others should have a
value N > 1 in them.

you should not modify rc files to sequence the fsck's.

now, once you've verified that this works correctly, you may indeed want
to use send-pr and report the behavior.  i believe you've found a bug of
the `it must not go loopy when given a broken configuration' sort.

--scott

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