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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: what is fs_clean for?
Date: 1 Oct 1993 15:32:30 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <28ekig$an2@wzv.win.tue.nl>,
Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> wrote:

[ FS clean bit patches ]
>No, your guess was right. However you need more then just these flags. A
>patched fsck that checks these bits plus kernel modifications to unmount
>ufs filesystems on reboot.

>This was posted a long time ago when only 386bsd existed, but is in the
>FreeBSD current source tree and should be available with the net release.
>I assume NetBSD has a similar thing, though I am not sure.

Unfortunately, FreeBSD does not (yet) have these patches in, and to be
completely honest it's probably because no-one has sat down and tested
them.  So, when they get tested they will be integrated.


Nate

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