Subject: Re: bin/1219: [dM] fsck is too aggressive about clean flags
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/13/1995 11:18:24
I _like_ the new behaviour of fsck, but then again I always tended
to prefer what felt right rather than what was historically done.
If the behaviour is to be changed back to the old style (which
I would prefer not to happen!), can we at least have a flag to
get the current behaviour (damn... -c already used :)
David
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On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Scott Reynolds wrote:
> When I say "fsck /dev/dsk/foo" on the HP-UX systems here, the filesystem
> gets checked. HP-UX has a clean flag, too. I consider this behavior
> intuitive, and requiring an option to get this behavior seems like
> overkill to me.
>
> Can't we instead put effort into making sure the clean flag reflects the
> actual state of the filesystem? I realize that there's not a simple, cut
> and dried resolution, but it seems to be the Right Thing to do. Making
> the programmers do work so the rest of the world doesn't have to is a
> desirable goal, in my mind (I come from the programmer's standpoint). :-)
>
> Just my .02 worth.
>
> --scott
>