Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:00:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@thinksec.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010230253350.35528-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <xzp66mk4tp3.fsf@aes.thinksec.com>
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> > I would think you'd either want to go entirely with the approach in (4), > > or add a new file in /etc, say "fstypes" or "fscktab". > Yes, that might be a good idea. You might want to consult Adrian on this, in connection with his work with fsck wrappers. > Doing anything at all before you know you can trust your root > partition (where fsck itself is stored) is not a very good idea. And using /etc/fstab, stored on the same partition, is a better idea? I don't think we're going to get around using a potentially corrupt root filesystem in any case, hence I am of the mind that you would want to be able to specify odd orders, but that the system would by default place '/' as the first entry. This should not cost you more work, while still maintaining the option for someone to do something we've not thought of. As a side note, we would pretty much get around the problem of a potentially unclean root file system by going with Poul-Henning's idea concerning boot file systems, which ISTR AIX and others have been using with no trouble for a long time. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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