From: Bas de Bakker (bas@phys.uva.nl)
Date: 04/01/93 

From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker)
Subject: Re: Is (e2)fsck dangerous??
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 19:37:03 GMT

>>>>> On Thu, 1 Apr 1993 12:02:13 GMT, dietmar@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Dietmar Braun) said:

db> This applies to any instance of fsck. fsck bypasses the kernel.

Hmm. fsck bypasses the filesystem, but it does use the block device
driver which is also in the kernel.

Bas.