Deprecating xfs_check

[Troy McCorkell]

On 04/11/2013 05:17 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> 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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Does "xfs_repair -n" need to provide all of the functionality that xfs_check
provides before it is replaced?

xfs_check can be run on a filesystem mounted read-only.  xfs_repair -n 
can not.

xfs_check has two options:
     -i ino   Specifies  verbose  behavior  for  the specified inode ino.
     -b bno   Specifies  verbose behavior for the specific filesystem 
block at bno.
which are not available with xfs_repair.

-Troy