On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:20:16AM -0500, Mouse wrote: > > Possibilities other than zero or one are not useful in manual pages, > > Then we can throw away fsck, because there is always _some_ chance the > filesystem will be irreparable. Memory, CPUs, disks, and the > transports between them do fail, occasionally transiently.
fsck is supposed to handle *all* corruptions to the file system that can occur as part of normal file system operation in the kernel. It is doing best effort for others. It's a bug if it doesn't do the former and a potential missing feature for the latter. Joerg
