Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 17:01:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? Message-ID: <199605051501.RAA28990@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605051335.PAA00347@eac.iafrica.com> from Robert Nordier at "May 5, 96 03:35:17 pm"
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As Robert Nordier wrote:
> A preen option is a Good Thing. 'fsck' itself has code to parse
> /etc/fstab, skipping non-ufs filesystems. One solution would be
> to incorporate equivalent code in 'dosfsck'. Possibly a more
> elegant approach (which may be what you had in mind) would be to
> handle the /etc/fstab parsing in a generic front-end.
I rather thought of it the other way round: similar to mount(8), keep
fsck(8) being the generic front-end that does the fstab parsing and
dispatching. Much like mount(8), it could have builtin knowledge
about some file system types (a builtin ufs checker, and the wisdom
that procfs, swap, and cd9660 don't require checking at all), while it
will call {/usr/sbin,/sbin}/fsck_${fstype} for all other file system
types.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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