Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 06:57:25 EST


Hi!

> > * Are there plans for making reiserfsck interface compatible with fsck?
> > I mean, making it so that reiserfsck can be symlinked to fsck.reiser
> > and it will work? Currently, there seems to be some incompatibility
> > in command-line switches. (I will dig out details and send separately
> > when I'll get back to my Linux box.)
>
> Not sure what you mean. Forgive me, I have not supervised fsck as
> closely as other things.

fsck.ext2/fsck.vfat/... follow some convention including naming,
command line switches, and behaviour.

Like fsck.ext2 /dev/something is enough to check the fielsystem.

reiserfsck is missnamed (should be fsck.reiser), and it likes to chat
with you -- which is unexpected for tools.
Pavel
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