From: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mke2fs: fix force option to create filesystem on mounted device
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:58:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5179C331.7050109@sx.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510F6B75.6090408@sx.jp.nec.com>
2013/02/04 17:04, Kazuya Mio wrote:
> According to mke2fs man, we can create a filesystem on the mounted device
> when -FF option is specified.
> However, currently we have to specify -F option third to force mke2fs.
> This patch fixes the problem.
>
> Note that force mke2fs for mounted block device fails because mke2fs opens
> a device with O_EXCL flag. This work is contradictory to mke2fs man page,
> but I'm not sure it should be fixed or not. What do you think?
Ted, please merge two patches if no problem is found.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/217838/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/217839/
Regards,
Kazuya Mio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-04 8:04 [PATCH 1/2] mke2fs: fix force option to create filesystem on mounted device Kazuya Mio
2013-04-25 23:58 ` Kazuya Mio [this message]
2013-04-26 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-05-07 8:14 ` Kazuya Mio
2013-05-20 4:50 ` Kazuya Mio
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