Bug#554149: initramfs-tools: please include e2fsck

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:16:32AM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> 
> 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 ?
 
no way.