From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?"
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420204704.GG3209@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ECC12B.5090602@redhat.com>
On Apr 20, 2009 14:38 -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>>> The only down side is when you try to automate this (say in an
>>> appliance) and you don't have a human reading the output. In this
>>> case, you might just want to invert the logic but in general, it does
>>> seem dangerous to invert the logic for a long standing option,
>>
>> Maybe make something like "-yy" automatically answer "n" to anything
>> that would stop the fsck, and answer "y" to anything that it proposes
>> fixing?
>
> That would be useful for scripting users - it is already assumed to be
> wildly dangerous to run it in "yes" mode I would assume in any case :-)
Well, all of the questions are designed to choose a safe option when
run with "-y", and to avoid changing the filesystem when run with "-n".
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 14:10 e2fsck -y says "yes" to "Abort?" Eric Sandeen
2009-04-18 16:17 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-20 18:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-20 18:33 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-04-20 18:38 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-20 20:47 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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