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Re: bin/1212: The AmigaDOS file system has no fsck-equivalent



On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> You could still fsck a filesystem for which you do not have r/w
> support.

Aha, didn't know about that. BTW, there also PR #1210 which says:

">Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 12 00:05:04 1995
>State:         open
>Description:
        There is no support in the AmigaDOS file system for writing,
        creating, or removing files, directories, etc.

>How-To-Repeat: 
        Try to mount an adosfs read-write (or, were that possible,
        try to do any of the above-named ops on the file system).

>Fix:   Add support for writing files.  A SMOP, right?  8-)"

And after consulting acronyms file for SMOP (simple matter of programming)
I realized it hasn't been one. I don't know if I should pull this string,
but Linux already got it. ;-)

Petri




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