From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 22 8:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DD037B4C5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA35322; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:39:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck References: <200010221518.e9MFIUX53822@cwsys.cwsent.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Oct 2000 17:39:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group's message of "Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:18:02 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group writes: > Other than making the fsck process more windows-like by reducing the > control the admin would have over the fsck process and giving people > with little or no UNIX experience an easier time managing FreeBSD > systems, I fail to see the benefit of this change -- the additional > error checking excepted. If you think obviating the need for Pass# is a Bad Thing, how about making it optional (defaulting to 1) so you can still set it manually on your systems, and the rest of us won't have to? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message