Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:03:47 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: CURRENT Kernel Status Message-ID: <XFMail.980322170347.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980322183922.14684@mcs.net>
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On 23-Mar-98 Karl Denninger wrote: ... > Fsck should require exactly ONE pass (possibly with "-y") to end up > self-consistent. You may lose files that way, but it should never > require a second run before it marks the filesystem "clean" and means it. ``Should'' is the key here. I have yet to see a Unix where that is true. Actually, this is one of the favorite M$ arguing points in their ``NT is better than Unix'' propaganda. Not to say I belive the NTFS to be all that much better (it is better in some journaling ways :-). Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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