On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Phill Hughes - PTS Kernel EMEA wrote:
> I stand well and truly corrected.
To be a little more diplomatic: There's a reason why the UFS group once
had a project running to replace fsdb with a set of "ufs mdb dcmds". These
days, it makes little sense to learn two terse debuggers (mdb and fsdb),
so why not apply the better one to disks just as well ?
FrankB. might know whether this is public somewhere. If not, we'll
reinvent it soon enough, it's just needed. mdb is the best debugger
bundled with Solaris, and except for compatibility with ancient scripts
calling it I don't see any reason why efforts should be put into promoting
(or enhancing) fsdb.
But willing to enter a broader discussion:
Let fsdb die in favour of "mdb on-disk fs data access modules" ?
Gets my vote, in any case.
FrankH.
