Subject: Re: RFC: progressbars for fsck_ffs
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/06/2002 21:52:05
>  | der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
>  | 
>  | > Of course, to do it fully right means hooking into the innards of fsck,
>  | > so each sub-fsck can report progress to the master process....
>  | 
>  | What about adding SIGINFO to each, so I can hit ^T and see what it's
>  | up to?
>
>SIGINFO already works;  I often hit ^T during the long fsck at boot
>after a crash to find out how far through fsck_ffs is...

mmm...i do that, too, but it's just so depressing to see how far along
it isn't.  fleh.  8-)

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