Subject: A new user's comments
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/1995 00:49:17
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 03:39:29 -0400
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
> -- I guess I ran into some of the `fsck' bugs that are fixed by patch 02.
> The installation instructions for 1.0 should be edited, I think, to
> suggest to people that they turn off `fsck' (by setting the two numbers on
> the end of each line in `fstab' to 0) until they get the patch installed.
> (Obviously, this won't be a problem in the next release.) Also, it sure
> would be nice if `fsck' had at least one of the two relatively recent
> features of the SunOS version: (1) it knows when a filesystem has been
> synced since its last write, so that `fsck'ing isn't necessary, and (2) it
> works on all disks simultaneously, checking one filesystem from each disk
> at a time.
NetBSD-current's fsck does the former. Every version of fsck ever
shipped with NetBSD does/did the latter.
?? I didn't notice it doing so... maybe I just missed it.
Should I try a -current? I'm really not into being on the bleeding edge.
-- Scott