RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Michael Schwingen
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:35 PM
> To: Jo Even Skarstein
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:24:26AM +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> >
> > I don't even know what "dump information" means (OK, so I'm
> drunk...), but
>
> the dump fiels in fstab specifies at which dump levels the dump tool makes
> backups of this filesystem. You could get around this by
> modifying dump, and
> get this information from some other configuration file ... but I
> don't see
> the advantage of that.
>
> > IMHO fsck can get all necessary information from GEMDOS, and
> not fstab. Why
>
> GEMDOS does not tell me what physical drive a partition is on. Maybe XHDI
> can help here?
>
> Running two parallel fscks on the same drive is a very bad idea
> (performance-wise).

This can easily be avoided by Dlock)ing the drive first -- something you
have to do anyway...