Re: fs translators and fsck [Was: init scripts don't fsck extra partitions]

[Samuel Thibault]

After a bit of irc discussion, here is another way of expressing the
idea.

The action of mounting a fs is intricated with the action of checking
it beforehand, that's what I'd like to express in some way.  Fstab does
that on usual unices.  The hurdish way of mounting is rather setting a
translator, so I'd rather see checking being done at translator setting
time.  A manual settrans -a /foo /hurd/ext2fs /dev/bar should probably
not start a check, but usual "administrative" passive translators should
(on system startup, not just when first accessed).

Side note: fstab could be generated just for human information through
some way (a translator or better as a mere administrative script).

Regards,
Samuel