From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ookhoi Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:43:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20030123074357.A2442@humilis> References: <3E2F13BE.8040407@namesys.com> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E2F13BE.8040407@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: Niek , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Vitaly Fertman , mason Hans Reiser wrote (ao): > I think we should have fsck ask the user to check and see if they are > using the latest fsck. > > "You really want to be using the very latest stable version of fsck > when you run it. Please go to www.namesys.com, click on the download > button, and see if you have the latest version before you continue." If XFree86 crashes, it says something like, "This is release foo, date bar. If it is more than six months old, or if your video card is newer than this release, please see if a newer release fixes it before you report a bug" Maybe fsck should say the same. It could very well be that you don't have access to the internet when you have to perform a fsck :-) And then you still would like to know how old your tools are. If you release new tools at least every two months, you can say two months. You can also point to the -pre releases (with the usual warning).