On 11/21/11 6:23 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:53:16AM +1300, Richard Scobie wrote: >> Is there currently now any situation where xfs_check would be used >> in preference to xfs_repair? >> >> If not, perhaps xfs_check could be deprecated. > > xfs_check is one of the ways we test that xfs_repair is doing the > right thing. Having two implementation that you can use to compare > results is a good thing..... What about for end users though? I'm not sure there's much need for end users to be comparing xfs_check against xfs_repair in general, anyway ... Often enough I see users using xfs_check just because it's there, and running into trouble... it seems reasonable to warn the casual user against it, or at least recommend xfs_repair -n instead. What do you think? -Eric > Cheers, > > Dave. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
