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Date:      Sat, 25 Dec 1999 22:17:02 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie
Subject:   Re: fsck not cleaning on first try
Message-ID:  <19991225221702.A39844@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <30130.946066441@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <199912241058.aa42494@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <30130.946066441@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:14:01PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <199912241058.aa42494@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:
> 
> >Should fsck be changed to set the hotroot flag if the block device
> >is given?
> 
> I deliberately didn't do this for several reasons:
> 
> 	1. It would need to know the bmajor -> cmajor translation table.
> 
> 	2. we need some carrot/stick to get people to update their /dev.

Might it be better to make it fix the filesystem, but always return
failure if it found a block device. That way it fails too boot
after you upgrade and not some weeks later when you don't expect
it. POLA and all that.

I guess printing/logging a message would be another option.

	David.


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