Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:36:52 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fsck wrappers, revisited Message-ID: <20000922133652.A10844@roaming.cacheboy.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009221757430.30954-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 06:00:04PM %2B0700 References: <20001223114150.A38052@roaming.cacheboy.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009221757430.30954-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > > > > So now is a problem which I'm sure the NetBSD people came up against. > > > > The fstypenames are names like 4.2BSD, vinum, ISO9660, etc. NetBSD fixed > > > > this by creating a new list 'mountnames[]', which maps the fs type to > > > > a string. > > > > > > Probably a hard link to fsck_ffs will do the job fine and makes it > > > clear to see which fs'es are supported: > > > > > > # ls -ail fsck* > > > 6338 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66032 22 sen 16:24 fsck > > > 6334 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 290896 22 sen 15:41 fsck_4.2BSD > > > 6334 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 290896 22 sen 15:41 fsck_ffs > > > 6334 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 290896 22 sen 15:41 fsck_ufs > > > > The trouble is that some of the FS strings have spaces in their filenames. > > This might confuse a few people. > > These (and probably other confusing) characters can be replaced > with underscores without much harm. That shouldn't be that hard to do. What do others think? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The main reason Santa is so jolly is <adrian@freebsd.org> because he knows where all the bad girls live." -- Random IRC quote To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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