Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 23:57:27 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? Message-ID: <199605052157.XAA01450@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <2890.831330701@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 5, 96 02:11:41 pm
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On Sun, 6 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > A preen option is a Good Thing. 'fsck' itself has code to parse > > /etc/fstab, skipping non-ufs filesystems. One solution would be > > to incorporate equivalent code in 'dosfsck'. Possibly a more > > The one thing that scares me about this whole scenario is having DOS > filesystems suddenly get checked when they weren't even looked at > before, perhaps then to run into a bug which causes DOSFS corruption > and some very unhappy user(s) who never even expected FreeBSD to take > such liberties with their DOS partitions. I agree we don't want to spotlight the behavior of the existing DOSFS unnecessarily. My idea was more to release 'fsck_msdos' in advance of the rewritten msdosfs, since it will later facilitate using and testing that. (Rather grapple with a beta msdosfs using a debugged fsck_msdos.) > I think it should still be an option to enable this particular > behavior! :-) By default no preening should occur, unless users specifically amend their /etc/fstab. Currently the 'fs_passno' field (sixth field) has a value of '0', which tells fsck that the filesystem doesn't need checking. Eg: /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos ro 0 0 ^ -- Robert Nordier
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