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From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix v7 icheck dup problem
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 19:58:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAWrTtlU/ALZIHZL@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230306081427.4F81A18C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:14:27AM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> 
> I've also been amusing myself trying to figure out who wrote:
> 
>   http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c

According to Guy Harris in
https://groups.google.com/g/net.unix/c/-H9x36DMOBQ/m/4mcL76lKbmMJ

'they had to replace "icheck" and "dcheck" with a new program which
would do most of the dirty work of file system repair for them -
Hal wrote one called "fcheck", which cleaned V6 file systems, and
which appeared in source-code form on the PWB/UNIX 1.0 distribution
tape.  Unfortunately, PWB/UNIX 1.0 modified the V6 file system so
that it didn't support "huge" files, and the eighth indirect pointer
pointed directly to a block as the other seven did, so the "fcheck"
there wouldn't fix a vanilla PWB/UNIX file system, but it worked
just fine on a vanilla V6 FS.'

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-06  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-06  8:14 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-06  8:58 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
2023-03-07  2:05   ` Kenneth Goodwin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-04 14:41 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-04 14:49 ` KenUnix
2023-03-03 18:22 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-03 19:25 ` Chet Ramey
2023-03-03 21:26   ` John Cowan
2023-03-04  0:23     ` Chet Ramey
2023-03-03 19:35 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-04  2:45   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-03 23:00 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-04  9:07 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-04 11:19   ` KenUnix
2023-03-02  1:59 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-02  2:11 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-02  1:36 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-02  1:56 ` John Cowan
2023-03-02  6:41   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-02  2:12 ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-02  2:46   ` Rich Salz
2023-03-01 21:29 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-01 21:54 ` KenUnix
2023-03-01 21:55 ` John Cowan
2023-03-01 22:15 ` Jon Forrest
2023-03-02  4:16 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-01 15:09 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-01 16:18 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-01 16:45   ` KenUnix
2023-03-01 16:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-01 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-02  1:46   ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02  3:05     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-02  7:56       ` John Cowan
2023-03-02  8:53         ` Steve Nickolas
2023-03-02  8:01       ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02  7:34   ` arnold

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