svn commit: r320892 - head/etc/defaults

[Edward Napierala]

2017-07-11 18:02 GMT+01:00 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>
:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Tue Jul 11 12:32:40 2017
> > New Revision: 320892
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/320892
> >
> > Log:
> >   Make fsck_y_enable default to passing pass -R to fsck_ffs(8) in
> addition
> >   to -y.  To me, fsck_y_enable means "try as hard as possible", and
> without
> >   -R, it... well, doesn't.
>
> To you perhaps, but it has long been and is well known that fsck -y is
> just that, fsck -y, not something more.  If you want it to be more
> your already given a tunable.
>
> I now have to "detune" all installed systems using fsck_y_enable if
> I do not want them to do this.
>

_If_.  But in most cases you do want it (imho -R should become the default
eventually), and you might learn about it in a unpleasantly surprising way.
Making it default is just optimizing for the common case.

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