In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes:
>On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:14:01PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes:
>>
>> >Should fsck be changed to set the hotroot flag if the block device
>> >is given?
>>
>> I deliberately didn't do this for several reasons:
>>
>> 1. It would need to know the bmajor -> cmajor translation table.
>>
>> 2. we need some carrot/stick to get people to update their /dev.
>
>Might it be better to make it fix the filesystem, but always return
>failure if it found a block device. That way it fails too boot
>after you upgrade and not some weeks later when you don't expect
>it. POLA and all that.
>
>I guess printing/logging a message would be another option.
We need to keep /kernel.{old|good|save} working for some period of
time, once that amount of time has transpired, more annoying ways
will be found :-)
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