From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] btrfs-progs: require mkfs -f force option to overwrite filesystem or partition table
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:23:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512D19DA.7030008@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5124EDAB.5020003@giantdisaster.de>
On 2/20/13 9:37 AM, Stefan Behrens wrote:
...
> This means that it is now required to change all occurrences of
> "mkfs.btrfs" to "mkfs.btrfs -f" everywhere. Can't we first establish a
> time period of 100 years where the -f option is tolerated and ignored,
> and then in 2113 we require that the users add the -f option?
>
> (Just had to do this string replacement everywhere, and had to add -f to
> xfstest's _scratch_mkfs in common.rc as well). Sigh.
I'll send a patch today to make xfstests handle both variants cleanly,
I should have done that earlier, sorry.
-Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-26 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 18:30 [PATCH, RFC] btrfs-progs: require mkfs -f force option to overwrite filesystem or partition table Eric Sandeen
2013-02-14 20:23 ` Chris Mason
2013-02-14 21:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-20 15:37 ` Stefan Behrens
2013-02-25 23:39 ` Tsutomu Itoh
2013-02-26 0:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-26 3:55 ` Tsutomu Itoh
2013-02-26 4:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-26 4:25 ` Tsutomu Itoh
2013-02-26 7:05 ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-26 8:53 ` Tsutomu Itoh
2013-02-28 16:30 ` mpbtr
2013-02-26 10:37 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-02-26 19:12 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2013-02-26 21:16 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-02-26 12:43 ` David Sterba
2013-02-26 20:23 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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