Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:25:54 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: fsck not cleaning on first try Message-ID: <37078.946160754@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Dec 1999 22:17:02 GMT." <19991225221702.A39844@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <19991225221702.A39844@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:
>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.
We need to keep /kernel.{old|good|save} working for some period of
time, once that amount of time has transpired, more annoying ways
will be found :-)
--
Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
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