From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] dumpe2fs: Warn when filesystem is mounted read-write Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:50:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20111008175001.GE7948@thunk.org> References: <1311866224-27351-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:34132 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752887Ab1JHRuH (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:50:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1311866224-27351-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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