On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:59:27 -0500 
 David Mazieres <dm@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

 > So then why all this talk about modifying fsck?  Why not just modify
 > your rc file to pass the "-f" flag every 10 reboots, but leave the
 > fsck/kernel source alone?

"Ick."  If we implement something like that, I'd much rather have that 
state stored in the superblock than in some file in the filesystem.

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