Petter Reinholdtsen wrote, on 2009-01-01 18:42: > [Arthur Marsh] >> When the system boots, checkfs.sh runs before module eata loads, and so >> fsck is not performed on the filesystems on the SCSI disk. >> >> /etc/modules is then processed and the SCSI disk is accessible. > > Which script is processing /etc/modules on your machine? Can you > provide the output from 'ls /etc/rcS.d/'? > > On my machine, it is done by module-init-tools in the > module-init-tools package, and it is started before checkfs.sh. > > Happy hacking,
victoria:/etc# ls rcS.d > /tmp/tmp.tmp victoria:/etc# cat /tmp/tmp.tmp README S01glibc.sh S02hostname.sh S02mountkernfs.sh S03udev S04mountdevsubfs.sh S05bootlogd S05initrd-tools.sh S05keymap.sh S06keyboard-setup S07hdparm S08hwclockfirst.sh S10checkroot.sh S11hwclock.sh S12mtab.sh S18ifupdown-clean S20module-init-tools S20modutils S25libdevmapper1.02 S25mdadm-raid S28checkfs-loop S30checkfs.sh S30etc-setserial S30procps S34fuse S35mountall.sh S36mountall-bootclean.sh S36udev-mtab S37mountoverflowtmp S38pppd-dns S39dns-clean S39ifupdown S40networking S43portmap S45mountnfs.sh S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh S46setserial S47lm-sensors S48console-screen.sh S49console-setup S50alsa-utils S51soundfont S55bootmisc.sh S55urandom S70nviboot S70x11-common S71xserver-xorg S75sudo S80microcode.ctl S99stop-bootlogd-single but see also the logs "boot" and "messages.0" that the check of all file systems takes place *before* module eata loads and the SCSI disk is detected: # cat boot Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: . Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Setting preliminary keymap...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Setting parameters of disc: /dev/hda. Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: /dev/hdb ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: (none). Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Setting the system clock. Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: System Clock set to: Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 CST 2009. Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Activating swap:swapon on /dev/hda6 Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: . Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Will now check root file system:fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda5 Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: /dev/hda5: clean, 441086/1528064 files, 2657469/3068407 blocks (check in 5 mounts) Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: . Thu Jan 1 07:25:15 2009: Setting the system clock. Thu Jan 1 07:25:17 2009: System Clock set to: Thu Jan 1 07:25:17 CST 2009. Thu Jan 1 07:25:17 2009: Cleaning up ifupdown.... Thu Jan 1 07:25:17 2009: Loading kernel module eata. Thu Jan 1 07:25:18 2009: Loading device-mapper support. Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: Assembling MD array md0...^[[31mfailed (no devices found).^[[39;49m Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: Generating udev events for MD arrays...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: Will now check all file systems. Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: Checking all file systems. Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /mirror3] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 Thu Jan 1 07:25:19 2009: /dev/hda3: recovering journal Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: /dev/hda3: clean, 1148/412896 files, 1666743/1666743 blocks Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: [/sbin/fsck.vfat (1) -- /victoriac] fsck.vfat -a /dev/hda1 Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: [/sbin/fsck.vfat (2) -- /scsic] fsck.vfat -a /dev/sda1 Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: open /dev/sda1:No such file or directory Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: [/sbin/fsck.vfat (2) -- /scsid] fsck.vfat -a /dev/sda5 Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: open /dev/sda5:No such file or directory Thu Jan 1 07:25:20 2009: dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN Thu Jan 1 07:25:49 2009: dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN Thu Jan 1 07:25:49 2009: /dev/hda1: 59315 files, 3388425/3577496 clusters Thu Jan 1 07:25:49 2009: [/sbin/fsck.vfat (1) -- /victoriad] fsck.vfat -a /dev/hda7 Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: /dev/hda7: 5061 files, 1171537/1226561 clusters Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: fsck died with exit status 1 Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: Done checking file systems. A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable.. Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:53 2009: Starting filesystem in userspace: fuse. Thu Jan 1 07:25:54 2009: Will now mount local filesystems:. Thu Jan 1 07:25:55 2009: Will now activate swapfile swap:done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:55 2009: Cleaning /tmp...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:55 2009: Cleaning /var/run...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:56 2009: Cleaning /var/lock...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:56 2009: Checking minimum space in /tmp...done. Thu Jan 1 07:25:56 2009: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. and messages: messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.854840] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] 8466688 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.33 GB/4.03 GiB) messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.893917] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Write Protect is off messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.925907] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.929562] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] 8466688 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.33 GB/4.03 GiB) messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.938388] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Write Protect is off messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.959243] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.959464] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > messages.0:Jan 1 07:26:34 victoria kernel: [ 60.997915] sd 0:0:6:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk After manually observing a reboot, it appears that although module eata is successfully loaded before filesystems are checked, the device files for the SCSI disk are created asynchronously, in my case after the filesystem check script has attempted to check the filesystems on the SCSI disk. 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