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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 1995 21:22:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        peter@taronga.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad superblock?
Message-ID:  <199509060222.VAA03427@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509060020.RAA24680@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 5, 95 05:20:53 pm

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> The problem is that fsck compares the whole superblock instead of just the
> areas that it cares about.

Yes, that's what I was asking about.

> Personally, I would recommend allowing it to do this unless you choose
> to upgrade the FS to the new layout or modify the fsck, making it an
> "enhanced 1.x FS" instead of a "1.x FS" or "2.x FS".  Of course, I'd
> advocate staying with the mainline code: update the disk or live with
> the fsck.

The problem is it doesn't just do an fsck. It barfs and forces a manual fsck.

The automatic fsck is fine.



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