From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 22 8:48:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A9937B4C5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id IAA05211; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:47:47 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda05209; Sun Oct 22 08:47:39 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9MFldZ19409; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdr19383; Sun Oct 22 08:47:31 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id e9MFlUe56130; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010221547.e9MFlUe56130@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdp56126; Sun Oct 22 08:47:19 2000 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Mailer: nmh 1.0.4, Exmh 2.1.1 X-Sender: cy To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Oct 2000 17:39:30 +0200." Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:47:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > 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? Cool. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message