From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] File system salvager, "salv"
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:40:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wwod2o617.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191017204438.GA1224@minnie.tuhs.org> (Warren Toomey's message of "Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:44:38 +1000")
Warren Toomey wrote:
> 11-56-91.pdf user-mode programs: pd, psych, rm, rn, roff, salv, sh
My attention is drawn to "salv".
Clem Cole wrote in 2016:
> The original FS tools for UNIX icheck/dcheck/ncheck were very crude.
> TSS and MTS (used a similar/same FS format) and and had a similar
> program in the key of fsck that Ted was familiar (as did a number of
> DEC systems for that matter). Ted wrote the original version of
> premordial fsck for v6 at UMich (maybe v5 - Joy probably would know
> what the version of UNIX was there then). Ted took "pre-fsck" to Bell
> Lab the summer between Mich and CMU. [...]
https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TUHS/Mail_list/2016-April.txt
There are these V2 and V3 man pages.
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v2/v2man.pdf
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man8/salv.8
I see a V3 man page for dcheck, but nothing for icheck until V6.
So it appears before fsck, and before icheck etc, there was salv, the
file system salvager tool. Some quick searching reveals that CTSS,
Multics, and ITS all also used the term salv and/or salvager for the
corresponding program, so there's ample precedent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 19:21 [TUHS] New: The Earliest UNIX Code - From the Collection of the Software History Center, Computer History Museum Lyle Bickley
2019-10-17 20:44 ` [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code Warren Toomey
2019-10-17 22:39 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-17 22:51 ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-18 5:59 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18 9:30 ` SPC
2019-10-18 17:36 ` Nemo
2019-10-18 3:01 ` Warren Toomey
2019-10-18 5:07 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18 5:10 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18 13:37 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-18 7:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2019-10-18 14:28 ` [TUHS] File system salvager, "salv" Clem Cole
2019-10-18 4:52 ` [TUHS] New: The Earliest UNIX Code - From the Collection of the Software History Center, Computer History Museum William Corcoran
2019-10-18 5:02 ` Lyle Bickley
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