Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hey!
>
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> * gnu/build/file-systems.scm (check-file-system): Drop "-C" argument
>>>> from fsck for compatibility with other fscks.
>>>
>>> Oh so fsck.ext2 would no longer show any kind of progress report?
>>> That’s annoying.
>>>
>>> Could we address it differently?  Not sure how, though.
>>
>> We would have to provide a custom check-file-system procedure for each
>> detected file-system. That might be needed in the long run anyway, but I
>> think this is a worthwhile compromise for now.
>
> What about adding a one-argument procedure as the ‘check-procedure’
> field of <file-system>, with a sane default, like:
>
>   (define (default-file-system-check file-system)
>     #~(system* (string-append "fsck." #$(file-system-type file-system))
>                …))
>
> ?
>
> In fact, that would also remove the need for the special case to add
> dosfstools to the initrd because we could simply write:
>
>   (define (fat-file-system-check file-system)
>     #~(system* #$(file-append vfatfsck/static "/bin/fsck.vfat")
>                …))
>
> and that would automatically bring vfatfsck/static to the initrd when
> it’s needed, and only then.
>
> WDYT?
>
> (Same design pattern as ‘open’ in <device-mapping>.)

This looks very promising. Will try to make it work -- new patches
hopefully later this week! :)