Subject: Re: fsck superfluous w/ softdep?
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/26/1999 21:59:46
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:25:36PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Reading http://www.mckusick.com./softdep/index.html, I wonder if we can
> dispense fsck(8) now too, after update(8)?

Heek, no !
fsck is still usefull for something else than unclean shutdown (corruption
because of user error, or hardware failure).
I'm not even sure fsck can be avoided with softdep after an unclean shutdown
rigth now.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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