Re: A couple of questions

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Steve Pratt wrote:

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>>>Hello!
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>>>On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:42:48PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>>>>>Second, what is the option to keep fsck from prompting for 'Yes' when
>>>>>>running.  I need to exec this without additional input.  Seems like
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>>>>>>should do it, but it doesn't.
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>>>>>Hans has a decision that this should not be done for now because
>>>>>reiserfsprogs are in active bugfixing stage.
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>>>>I don't understand this.:-/
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>>>You have said "We do not trust reiserfsck to be run automatically without
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>>Ah, now I remember the conversation.  Yes, if we put the option in,
>>someone will get the bright idea to run it at every boot (and they might
>>be a distro or appliance vendor:-/), and fsck is not as reliable as
>>journaling so this should not be done.
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>>So, why do you want to exec it without additional input?
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>Because I have already prompted for input from the EVMS interface.  The
>FSIMs in EVMS provide for EVMS to coordinate actions with the file systems
>such are shrinking the filesystem before shrinking the volume.  We also
>provide interfaces for mkfs, fsck and defrag (if supported by the file
>system).  So the FSIM prompts for all of the options to be passed to the
>file system utility and then invokes it.  In the case of fsck I have
>already prompted for all the options and the user is explicitly asking for
>fsck on this volume.  Since the prompt is output on stdout it may not be
>visible to a GUI user.
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Do you print the reiserfs credits?

Hans