why is there a wrong remark in Technical Guide around fsck on NFS mounts?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • In the Tehcnical Guide for RHEL 6.2 there is the following remark :

See: initscripts component

Running the file system check (using fsck) on a NFS mounted file  system fails, and
causes the system to fail to boot and drop into a shell. To work around this issue,
disable fsck on any /boot partitions by setting the sixth value of a /boot entry in
/etc/fstab to 0.)
  • why would an fsck would be initiated on NFS if /boot has non zero sixth parameter and what the remark on /boot has to do with it?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 - Technical Docs

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