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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:59:02 -0500
From: "Scott J. Harmon" <harmon@ksu.edu>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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       Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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

Yeah, I would never imagine that for ext2 and ext3 fsck might be called
'e2fsck'. ;-)

Scott.
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