From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 25 14:26:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3401D14C18 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 14:26:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA37080; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:25:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Malone Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: fsck not cleaning on first try In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Dec 1999 22:17:02 GMT." <19991225221702.A39844@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:25:54 +0100 Message-ID: <37078.946160754@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message