Re: Hard disk crash and solution

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:43:57AM +0100, Ookhoi wrote:
> > 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"

I think it does already. Along with suggesting on where to send bugreports
if this is the latest release.

> 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).

main.c:  ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and  it fails **\n\
main.c-  ** please  email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, **\n\
main.c-  ** providing  as  much  information  as  possible --  your **\n\

Though this warning is printed at the beginning.

Bye,
    Oleg