Subject: Re: Progress meter for fsck, revisited
To: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/16/2004 23:57:12
On Friday 16 January 2004 23:47, James Chacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:45:22PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:11:06AM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> > > > It's *optional*...Don't like it, don't enable the option. The code
> > > > itself would be useful at least under the circumstances Jason
> > > > mentioned and others who want more can implement if they so feel...
> > >
> > > "Useful in a very specific case" is not good enough. Simply because it
> >
> > It's usefull for all single-disk configuration (not single-filesystem as
> > you said). That makes a quite large possible usage :)
>
> I've seen > 5 "yay" and 1 "nay". I'd definitly say more people want this
> than don't want it so I'd say commit.

So count me as "yay" too.  I agree with all of: it's optional, it may set a
code base for future improvements, and many installations have just one disk
to be checked (i.e., desktops).

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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