Re: Why does fsck.xfs not do what xfs_repair -n does?

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:16:36AM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Marcel Partap wrote:
> > Dear XFS dev crew,
> > > fsck.xfs(8)
> > >         fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully
> > >         If you wish to check the consistency of an XFS filesystem, or repair a damaged or corrupt XFS filesystem, see xfs_repair(8).
> > 
> > So there's a FS check command that does not work as with all the other
> > filesystems. Instead of checking the FS, it tells you to use xfs_repair
> > both for - XFS repair.. and XFS check. Whereas in the man page of
> > > xfs_repair - repair an XFS filesystem
> > it doesn't tell you right at the top that xfs_repair can check XFS. Instead
> > > *       -n     No modify mode. Specifies that xfs_repair should […]  *scan  the  filesystem*
> 
> Xfs used to have two different tools for that. xfs_check and xfs_repair. This
> required one more tool, several more lines of code to be maintained, while
> xfs_repair does the check job with '-n' option, so, it was decided to deprecate
> xfs_check and keep efforts only in xfs_repair.

A symlink to xfs_check and a check for the alias would have sufficed to keep the
old interface while sharing code. That can be considered should folks agree this
desirable and should be a few lines of code.

  Luis