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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:37:21 +0200
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck wrappers
Message-ID:  <20000619203721.R13112@zoe.bastard.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000619113434.A37336@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:34:34AM -0700
References:  <20000619134233.O13112@zoe.bastard.co.uk> <20000619113434.A37336@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:42:33PM +0200, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > I've ported the NetBSD fsck wrapper to compile and run under FreeBSD.
> 
> Can you summerize what this does, or does better than what we do today?

The idea is the same as mount and its helpers - adding new fsck types
doesn't require modifying the startup scripts or fsck. Think of a system
where you have an FFS fs, an LFS fs, and perhaps an IFS fs. Each one
requires a seperate fsck, but it would be stupid to have fsck_* -p in
the rc scripts.

Eventually FreeBSD systems will have more than just FFS based filesystems
running the system, and users will want to fsck them just like a FFS
filesystem.



adrian

-- 
Adrian Chadd			Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the
<adrian@FreeBSD.org>		rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and
				he's warm for the rest of his life.



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