Deprecating xfs_check

Ben Myers bpm at sgi.com
Thu Apr 11 17:17:55 CDT 2013


Hey Chandra,

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:45:08PM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Alex Elder mentioned about deprecating xfs_check, and he suggested is to
> replace xfs_check command with a script, that says xfs_check is
> deprecated, use "xfs_repair -n".
> 
> Sounds ok ?
> 
> Let me know if it is not the right approach.

That sounds ok to me.  You might also consider making xfs_check a hardlink to
xfs_repair and varying the behavior based on program name.  Then xfs_check ==
xfs_repair -n.

Regards,
	Ben



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