Preen with NFS?

[Jean-Francois Lamy]

grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:

>I'm not familiar with this preen program, but I owuld point out that DEC has
>improved the "fsck -p" option so that it doesn't bother with filesystems
>that are "clean" or haven't been modified since last unmounted.  This lets
>you do a planned shutdown/startup quickly, though after a crash, it's still
>going to take a while...

Hardly an improvement.  I've seen machines do perfectly orderly shutdowns, yet
fsck -p discover some inconsistencies after reboot.  I've seen two or three
successive fscks on the same unmounted file system fix inconsistencies before
the file system fsck-ed cleanly twice in a row.  We tend to view "guessing"
schemes rather dimly around here...

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy at ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4