/etc/init.d/umountfs doesn't umount any filesystems

[Chris Moore]

The links in /etc/rc* look like this:

$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*umountfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2005-10-25 01:59 /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs -> ../init.d/umountfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2005-10-25 01:59 /etc/rc6.d/S40umountfs -> ../init.d/umountfs

note the 'S' for start.

The umountfs script implements 'start' as follows:

case "$1" in
    start)
        ;;

ie. do nothing.

The upshot of this is that umountfs never umounts any filesystems, risking data loss at every reboot. Every time I reboot my filesystems take a long time to mount while they have transactions replayed.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

Looking at this further, it turns out that umountfs is being run with the argument "stop", and so the proper code is running.

This leaves me wondering why my reiserfs partitions keep replaying transactions every time I boot.

The boot process was a lot faster until recently, but I was wrong in this bug report about the cause of the slowdown.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This whole bug was a red herring.

I raised bug #29187 to describe what's really going on.

It's nothing to do with umountfs.