Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:30:27 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: David Gilbert <dave@daveg.ca> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: More running-with-scissors and fsck. Message-ID: <18355.1099488627@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:19:25 EST." <4188DADD.4020907@daveg.ca>
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In message <4188DADD.4020907@daveg.ca>, David Gilbert writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>In message <41887A33.2060608@dclg.ca>, David Gilbert writes: >> >> >>>Well... the recoverdisk is a cool tool. I can see it coming in handy >>>many times. While there isn't much documentation, I've tended to use it >>>by creating a vnode md disk of exactly the right size to recover the >>>partition in question. >>> >>> >> >>You could just have used a regular file for it and connected it to a >>md later on. >> >> >It won't create the file by itself. I created the md disk because I >didn't take the time to read the code, I suppose. It would make people >"feel" better if it created the target file when it didn't exist. I would be really happy to see somebody improve on my little hack, there are many things that could be improved about it, and if they were, it would be a good addition to src/sbin -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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