From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 30 9:27:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579A437B719; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjesup@wgate.com) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id H70XLGHB; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:27:33 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: Kirk McKusick Cc: John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck References: <200103300602.WAA09248@beastie.mckusick.com> From: Randell Jesup Date: 30 Mar 2001 12:29:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: Kirk McKusick's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:02:10 -0800" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk McKusick writes: > > The default will be automatic background fsck of filesystems > > running with soft updates. It will be possible to override this > > default by adding the letter `F' to the passno in /etc/fstab > > (e.g., saying `2F' means do it in the second pass before going > > multiuser). > > Uppercase or either case? > >My plan was to make it upper case only. Do you feel that it should >be one or the other or case insensitive? Unix does not generally do >case insensitive. Case insensitive, PLEASE. Nothing should be case sensitive unless there's a reason for making a distinction. It merely adds more ways people can shoot themselves in the foot and waste innumerable hours wondering why something isn't working. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message