On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:06 -0500, David Masover wrote: all snip.....
All I was getting at originally was to make fsck.reiser4 behave similarly to other fsck/mkfs programs so that it _could_, when requested, check a disk/partition for bad blocks. Despite the improved capabilities of modern drives, sh*t happens. And I, for one, would like the option of knowing before formatting a new partition if it's OK to do so. Sure, I can run badblocks myself, but this is counter to what I do with other fsck programs. A wrapper script would work fine, and I suppose, some sort of pipe output. However, I'm just looking at this from a userland perspective, not that of a sysadmin. Obviously, a sysadmin would not put any disk into production that has not been carefully tested. If this is superfluous, that's OK. I can easily work around it, but it should be noted somewhere in a README that reiserfs/4 does not do bad block checking during format and only a quick format is done. -- Peter +++++ Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357
