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From: Daniel Drake <ddrake@brontes3d.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] Restore backup superblocks in preen mode
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 14:52:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178650340.923.26.camel@systems03.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508181459.GA31101@thunk.org>

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> We could argue about whether or not e2fsck should explicitly ask for
> permission before using a backup superblock, and possibly printing the
> label and validating the size, etc., before using it

In that case, I think it should. At least, that would kill the confusion
where preen mode apparently doesn't want to automate a potentially
dangerous operation, whereas the standard mode works extremely hard to
complete the operation with no user intervention (and doesn't even
require as much info from the user!).

Thanks.
-- 
Daniel Drake
Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-08 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-08 17:43 [PATCH e2fsprogs] Restore backup superblocks in preen mode Daniel Drake
2007-05-08 18:14 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-08 18:52   ` Daniel Drake [this message]

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