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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



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