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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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