On Saturday 08 October 2011 01:48:08 Josef Bacik wrote: > [...] Fsck has the > potential to make any users problems worse, and given the > increasing number of people putting production systems on btrfs > with no backups the idea of releasing a unpolished and not fully > tested fsck into the world is terrifying, and would likely cause > long term "I heard that file system's fsck tool eats babies" sort > of reputation.
...and, for instance, it was one of the criticisms levelled at reiserfs (v3) that its fsck implementation was rather brain dead in some ways - it couldn't distinguish files contained in an image of a reiserfs filesystem from those in the reiserfs filesystem that the image file was in, plus it could discover files from a previous reiserfs filesystem after it had been reformatted (as reiserfs). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#fsck Chris worked on reiserfs, so he probably doesn't really want to go through all that again.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
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