Subject: Re: bin/1212: The AmigaDOS file system has no fsck-equivalent
To: Petri Koistinen <pkoistin@cs.stadia.fi>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/11/2001 13:10:35
You could still fsck a filesystem for which you do not have r/w
support. We really should have at least a readonly fsck for all
filesystems to avoid mounting a damaged filesystem and potentially
panics.
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Petri Koistinen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There exists this old open PR, which states that:
>
> "There is no program that's the equivalent of fsck(8) for the AmigaDOS
> file system (ADOSFS)."
>
> Is this realy a issue? Adosfs provides currently read-only access to file
> system. So maybe we would need first r/w-access before implementing
> fsck(8) for adosfs. This PR should be postponed until such thing is
> implemented.
>
> Petri
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