My work

Ok, the work on fast fsck is finished. I integrated it with fsck_ffs(8).

I also changed the way how gjournaled file system is created. Now you need to use ‘-j’ option for newfs to create gjournaled file system. You can also use ‘tunefs -j enable’ on an existing file system. You don’t need to provide ‘gjournal’ mount option any more, but when file system is gjournaled it will be visible in mount options.

I removed a hack of how gjournal was looking for gjournaled file systems. It is much nicer now.

Currently fsck will scan all cylinder groups, which is fast, but it could be a lot faster when I could add cs_nunrefs field to csum structure – file system keeps statistics about all cylinder groups after the super-block and having an information about which cylinder groups have unreferenced inodes would save us a lot of seeking. Unfortunately it will change UFS on-disk layout which is not acceptable at this point.

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