From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] File system salvager, "salv"
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:28:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PEzmqRS4L=ZkQacFZMFznxUVVWDxvy2E73Fvo54g9frg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wwod2o617.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org>
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 2:41 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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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 ` [TUHS] File system salvager, "salv" Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-18 14:28 ` Clem Cole [this message]
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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