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Bug 118897

Summary: rc.sysinit will break with data=writeback on root-partition
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Niels Happel <nhappel>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 3.0CC: rvokal, sct
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Description Niels Happel 2004-03-22 16:42:17 UTC
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Description of problem:
While using data=writeback as a mount option in /etc/fstab the system
bootup breaks and the system will hang in "emergency" mode.
It seems that the remount,rw off the root Partition breaks wih this
mount option.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.31.9.EL-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter data=writeback instead of defaults to the /etc/fstab for /
2.reboot your system
3.view what happens
    

Expected Results:  it should boot normally

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-20 22:34:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151961 ***