>>> Hmm, but I can't help but wonder if it would be better to but the
>>> fstab goo into the wrapper, [...]
>> I thought about that for quite a while. I finally decided that there
>> was no good way to implement the -p (preen) option if we did things
>> like that.

> Uh, actually, it's pretty easy:

> 	change the per-fs '-p' option so that it does the single
> 	(specified) file system.

> 	dispatch forks/execs of per-fs checkers as necessary

This has the additional advantage that the "run in parallel but avoid
spindle contention" feature of fsck -p works even across filesystem
types...which isn't really possible if you leave -p in the individual
fsck_xxx binaries.

Of course, it has the downside that all fsck_xxx binaries must support
-p, at least as a harmless no-op.  But then, they all have to take more
or less the same argument pattern anyway for the dispatch thing to work
right to start with.

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