On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:16:36AM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Marcel Partap wrote: > > Dear XFS dev crew, > > > fsck.xfs(8) > > > fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully > > > If you wish to check the consistency of an XFS filesystem, or repair a damaged or corrupt XFS filesystem, see xfs_repair(8). > > > > So there's a FS check command that does not work as with all the other > > filesystems. Instead of checking the FS, it tells you to use xfs_repair > > both for - XFS repair.. and XFS check. Whereas in the man page of > > > xfs_repair - repair an XFS filesystem > > it doesn't tell you right at the top that xfs_repair can check XFS. Instead > > > * -n No modify mode. Specifies that xfs_repair should […] *scan the filesystem* > > Xfs used to have two different tools for that. xfs_check and xfs_repair. This > required one more tool, several more lines of code to be maintained, while > xfs_repair does the check job with '-n' option, so, it was decided to deprecate > xfs_check and keep efforts only in xfs_repair. A symlink to xfs_check and a check for the alias would have sufficed to keep the old interface while sharing code. That can be considered should folks agree this desirable and should be a few lines of code. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
