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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:16:26 -0500
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        VANHULLEBUS Yvan <vanhu_bsd@zeninc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fscking a partition mounted Read only...
Message-ID:  <20061016191626.GD77730@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061016074904.GA30889@zen.inc>
References:  <20061013074136.GA31459@zen.inc> <20061013080407.GA26522@britannica.bec.de> <20061013174215.GB83555@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <200610131416.51379.jhb@freebsd.org> <20061013185757.GA88689@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20061016074904.GA30889@zen.inc>

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:49:04AM +0200, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:
> 
> Right: I just tried on a FreeBSD 4.11, and I can fsck a partition
> which has just been remounted RO.
> 
> Could it be interesting (and quite safe !) to recompile 4.X's fsck
> under FreeBSD6 and do the test again on FreeBSD 6 ?

I doubt you'd get the code to work under 6.x or 5.x even.  I'm not sure if
any GEOM-related stuff ever made it into fsck, but certainly the background
checking code and softupdates changes were introduced about that time.

-- Rick C. Petty



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