From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: Would it be safe to let only reboot do syncs? Date: 6 Apr 1993 19:35:51 -0500
roman@eskimo.com (Bill Roman) writes:
>I'm running the SLS 0.99p4 distribution of mid-February (yes, I know, I'll
>update it Real Soon Now). In /etc/inittab I find:
>#
># Sysinit: takes place only once, right after system boot, *before*
># possibly going single-user.
>#
>si::sysinit:/etc/update &
>This is apparently a feature of the Sys V style init. I wish there was a
>manual page for this.
>The only disadvantage I see in this is that update gets started before /etc/rc
>can fsck the root filesystem. I used to fsck before starting update, thus
>ensuring a quiescent filesystem.
I agree with this. I fsck the root partition immediatly after boot from
/etc/bcheckrc, then start update later on. This means if there were any
problems hopefully nothing else could be running which would write back
onto the root partition.
James