From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 22 16:58:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11028 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA11016 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 1750 invoked from network); 23 Mar 1998 01:03:47 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 23 Mar 1998 01:03:47 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-031798 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980322183922.14684@mcs.net> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:03:47 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Karl Denninger Subject: Re: CURRENT Kernel Status Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Mar-98 Karl Denninger wrote: ... > Fsck should require exactly ONE pass (possibly with "-y") to end up > self-consistent. You may lose files that way, but it should never > require a second run before it marks the filesystem "clean" and means it. ``Should'' is the key here. I have yet to see a Unix where that is true. Actually, this is one of the favorite M$ arguing points in their ``NT is better than Unix'' propaganda. Not to say I belive the NTFS to be all that much better (it is better in some journaling ways :-). Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message