From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dumpe2fs: Warn when filesystem is mounted read-write
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:50:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008175001.GE7948@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311866224-27351-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:17:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When dumpe2fs is used on a filesystem mounted read-write, printed information
> may be old and inconsistent because e.g. updates of some superblock fields
> happen lazily or because we do not really try to handle various intermediate
> states of filesystem operations. Document this in the manpage and warn user
> when dumpe2fs is used for such filesystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
I decided to move the warning in the man page to the DESCRIPTION
section, since it's really not a bug, but something which should be
self-evident.
And I also decided for that reasn to not have dumpe2fs print it. If
users complain, we can now just tell them to RTFM.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-08 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-28 15:17 [PATCH] dumpe2fs: Warn when filesystem is mounted read-write Jan Kara
2011-07-28 16:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-07-28 19:51 ` Jan Kara
2011-07-29 9:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-10-08 17:50 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
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