Subject: Re: A new user's comments
To: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/1995 03:39:29
>  -- 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.



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