Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On 05/06/2018 01:12 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Al Viro - 06.05.18, 02:59:
> > Funny, that...  I'd been going through the damn thing for the
> > last week or so; open-by-fhandle/nfs export support is completely
> > buggered.  And as for the rest... the least said about the error
> > handling, the better - something like rename() hitting an IO
> > error (read one) can not only screw the on-disk data into the
> > ground, it can do seriously bad things to kernel data structures.
> >
> > Is there anything resembling fsck for that thing, BTW?  Nevermind
> > the repairs, just the validity checks would be nice...
>
> I am not aware of the fsck command for affs on Linux. There is a
> partitioning tool called amiga-fdisk, but for checking a filesystem you
> would need to use a tool under AmigaOS.

So, it should be made read-only FS, until the problems are
fixed (and there's linux-native FS consistency checker)?

Read-only mode should be enough for the data rescue purposes
mentioned in the list.


	- Eero