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DateTue, 1 Aug 2006 12:37:14 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?
Hi!

> > * Are there plans for making reiserfsck interface compatible with fsck?
> >  I mean, making it so that reiserfsck can be symlinked to fsck.reiser
> >  and it will work? Currently, there seems to be some incompatibility
> >  in command-line switches. (I will dig out details and send separately
> >  when I'll get back to my Linux box.)
> 
> Not sure what you mean.  Forgive me, I have not supervised fsck as
> closely as other things.

fsck.ext2/fsck.vfat/... follow some convention including naming,
command line switches, and behaviour.

Like fsck.ext2 /dev/something is enough to check the fielsystem.

reiserfsck is missnamed (should be fsck.reiser), and it likes to chat
with you -- which is unexpected for tools.
								Pavel
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