From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 22 18: 0:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90ED237B65E for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id DAA94848; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:00:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA35559; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:00:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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