Bug#554149: initramfs-tools: please include e2fsck

[Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.4
Severity: normal


Hi,

in this post by Ted Tso:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354#c149

one can read the following sentence:

  Distributions that want to be extra paranoid should store fsck 
  and all of its needed files in the initrd, and then check the root
  filesystem before mounting it ro, but no distro does this as far 
  as I  know.

During boot, it would allow to mount the ext4 root FS read-only without
replaying the journal.  So could you please include e2fsck and
dependencies in the initramfs ?

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Laurent Bonnaud.
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