Re: Remove xfs_check for 3.2.0?

Dave Chinner
2014-05-08T22:02:23Z

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:04:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Thu, 08 May 2014 15:40:57 -0500 vous écriviez:
>
> > *shrug* ok. Let a thousand "hey my xfs_check OOM'd" emails
> > blossom! :)
> >
> > FWIW, I did not have time to work on that prefetch bug yet today. :(
> >
>
> Why not replace it by a script that simply states that it's useless and
> to run xfs_repair -n instead? It has been completely useless for the
> best part of the past ten years... This way you don't remove it but
> you'll sort of fix it :)

xfs_check is already just a script that wraps xfs_db.

However, there's all the man page updates, all the external
documentation needs to be updated, etc. IOWs, it's not just a case
of a simply patching out the xfs_check script....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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