[PATCH FOR REVIEW] fsck_ffs: Recover from catastrophic damage
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Feb 20 09:56:29 UTC 2008
Quoting Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> (from Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:36:04 -0800):
> Change summary:
>
> fsutil.c:
> - Really update standard superblock. fsck_ffs -b used to update the
> backup superblock which does not recover file systems which have bad
> master superblocks.
> - Instead of coredump, zero out whole cg if its signature is bad.
>
> inode.c:
> - Instead of coredump, zero out whole cg if its signature is bad.
Does this modify (zero out) on-disk blocks? If yes, shouldn't this ask
for confirmation?
Bye,
Alexander.
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