On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In Fedora 20, by default anaconda sets fs_passno in fstab to 1 for / on 
> btrfs. During offline updates, this is causing systemd-fstab-generator to 
> freak out not finding fsck.btrfs.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034563

Right, it should not set 1 for btrfs.

> For some time I've been suggesting that fstab should use fs_passno 0 for 
> btrfs file systems:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862871

See here:
  
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=94192cdaf652c9717f15274504ed315126c07a93

> But because of this suggestion by an XFS dev, I'm wondering if that's not a 
> good idea. Or if we should expect some smarter behavior on the part of 
> systemd (now or in the future) when it comes to devices that take a long time 
> to appear?
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29231.html

It makes no sense, to ship a dead program, just to please broken
configs. There should be no fsck for btrfs or any other fs that does
not need a check.

> It doesn't seem to me that for file systems that don't require an fs check, 
> that fstab should indicate it does require an fs check, just to inhibit hissy 
> fits by other processes not liking that the device is missing. But maybe I'm 
> missing something.

Such hacks are plain wrong and not needed for today's systems.

Kay
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