dirty root FS should be forced clean if they are dirty

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It is poor practice not to force clean a dirty root FS (ext4 type) on boot if the system has gone down hard; The root FS comes up mounted read only and one has to manually reboot to recovery mode and force fsck through a command line.

For Server class machines the user invention increases down time.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=saucy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="13.10, Saucy Salamander"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 13.10"
VERSION_ID="13.10"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
# uname -a
Linux -jpd 3.11.0-6-powerpc-e500mc #9-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 28 04:08:05 UTC 2014 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This is not for the kernel to do.