Subject: Re: FFS reliability problems
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/07/2002 21:38:43
    Date:        Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:38:54 -0400
    From:        gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
    Message-ID:  <20020606053854.GL344@uriel.eclipsed.net>

  | Don't think anyone's suggesting that, just that fsck(8) shouldn't
  | make it impossible to recover that file with fsdb(8).

If you're planning to run fsdb on a broken filesystem, running fsck on
it first (other than perhaps a fsck -n to get an idea what the damage is
like) would be just stupid, wouldn't it?

Given that, surely what fsck does is irrelevant, isn't it?

kre