Subject: Re: fsck superfluous w/ softdep?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/26/1999 15:34:45
> Reading http://www.mckusick.com./softdep/index.html, I wonder if we
> can dispense fsck(8) now too, after update(8)?

No.

Trashing fsck would amount to saying that the only way filesystems can
be corrupted is through unclean shutdowns - and that the code to deal
with such situations is perfect.

Neither of which is true.

					der Mouse

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