[CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

My manager reminds me that "in the old Sun days", the ssh server came up
first, *before* the fsck on boot, so that if there was a problem, and fsck
was waiting for an answer, you could remotely ssh in, kill it, restart it,
and answer (or give it the right flags).

Does anyone know if it's possible to have that happen with CentOS? It
would be nice to have it boot that way, so that if you checked, and
figured it should have been up already, you could handle the problem
without coming in....

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