On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:14:01PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes:
>
> >Should fsck be changed to set the hotroot flag if the block device
> >is given?
>
> I deliberately didn't do this for several reasons:
>
> 1. It would need to know the bmajor -> cmajor translation table.
>
> 2. we need some carrot/stick to get people to update their /dev.
Might it be better to make it fix the filesystem, but always return
failure if it found a block device. That way it fails too boot
after you upgrade and not some weeks later when you don't expect
it. POLA and all that.
I guess printing/logging a message would be another option.
David.
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