From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:52:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20030123095201.A12043@namesys.com> References: <3E2F13BE.8040407@namesys.com> <20030123074357.A2442@humilis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123074357.A2442@humilis> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ookhoi Cc: Hans Reiser , Niek , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Vitaly Fertman , mason 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