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From: root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Resident device
Keywords: filesystem ACTION_VALIDATE
Message-ID: <84@ccave.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 01:00:32 GMT
References: <4299@nigel.udel.EDU> <128072@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <9142@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann)
Organization: Chameleon's Cave [JDCP 0.96]
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In article <9142@microsoft.UUCP> w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes:
>Along the same lines, since the handler also knows the logical layout of
>the medium, it should be the one doing the validation, shouldn't it? An
>ACTION_VALIDATE packet should be in order. Then, the Unix fsck program

Well, we have this already, and it's called ACTION_INHIBIT(FALSE).
However, we don't have ACTION_FORMAT and I think it's a good idea to have
that.

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