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From: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs, tune2fs, resize2fs: add warning messages for bigalloc and quota
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:46:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FED072.2020402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <355F6D97-0481-45C8-805B-F2E2BF6118F8@dilger.ca>

On 1/22/13 11:24 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> My preference would be to have separate "--force-bigalloc" and
> "--force-quota" options instead of lumping everything under a single
> "--force/-f" flag. That can become habitual for one kind of usage
> (e.g. mke2fs on a regular file) and then it also forces other
> dangerous behaviour (such as these) as an unknown side effect.

Actually, that's a good point, I had the same thought and meant
to mention it but forgot. :(

I guess the release is out there now, though.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-22 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22  0:09 [PATCH] mke2fs, tune2fs, resize2fs: add warning messages for bigalloc and quota Theodore Ts'o
2013-01-22  0:19 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-01-22 17:24   ` Andreas Dilger
2013-01-22 17:46     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2013-01-22 18:45     ` Theodore Ts'o

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