Re: [PATCH, RFC] btrfs-progs: require mkfs -f force option to overwrite filesystem or partition table

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013 schrieb Tsutomu Itoh:
> >> Therefore I want you to revert
> >> commit:2a2d8e1962e8b6cda7b0a7584f6d2fb95d442cb6.
> >>
> >>    btrfs-progs: require mkfs -f force option to overwrite filesystem
> >>or partition table
> >>
> >> How do you think about it?
> > 
> > What if you submit a patch to look at an environment variable,
> > BTRFS_CLOBBERS_ALL=1 which causes it to not require -f to overwrite?
> > Then you can just set it once at the top of your test environment,
> > and not change every instance?
> 
> Yes. But,
>  >> (Most of my test scripts fails without -f. So I'll always type
> "mkfs.btrfs -f") is one example.
> 
> Almost everyone types "mkfs.btrfs -f" (or BTRFS_CLOBBERS_ALL=1 :)
> unconditionally, I think.
> So, I think -f option is almost meaningless.

No.

I don´t.

And I teach not to in my trainings as well.

Everyone who uses rm -rf by default even just for deleting a single file does 
it as long as he or she deleted his / her home directory or something.

Ciao,
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