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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
Cc: 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 13:33:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49ECBFFB.2050004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ECBF08.6030806@redhat.com>

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,
> 
> Ric
> 

Maybe make something like "-yy" automatically answer "n" to anything
that would stop the fsck, and answer "y" to anything that it proposes
fixing?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-20 18:33 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 [this message]
2009-04-20 18:38       ` Ric Wheeler
2009-04-20 20:47         ` Andreas Dilger

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