From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Is (e2)fsck dangerous?? Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 14:13:18 GMT
In article <C4t03p.21G@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, dietmar@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Dietmar Braun) writes:
| This applies to any instance of fsck. fsck bypasses the kernel.
I assume you mean bypasses the filesystem logic in the kernel. It
still uses the kernel device drivers unless e2fsck is doing something
REALLY odd.
The problem is that fsck fixes up the disk and then the kernel writes
stuff from buffers. Not desirable in any UNIX.
-- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345