From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: recognize mke4fs program name Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:20:58 -0500 Message-ID: <20120215192058.GH11382@thunk.org> References: <4F32E173.2050103@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ext4 development To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:46168 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755131Ab2BOTVD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:21:03 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F32E173.2050103@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:56:19PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > We shipped "mke4fs" alongside mke2fs in RHEL5, so that ext4-capable > utilities could be installed without disturbing the venerable e2fsprogs-1.39 > shipped in RHEL5 from the beginning. But it surprised some users that > "mke4fs" created ext2 filesystems by default rather than ext4. > While it was my intent to have the renamed binaries behave exactly > like the stock ones, it seems that there is some precedence for > handling "mkeNfs" in the code, so seems reasonable to add > mke4fs -> ext4 as well. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Thanks, applied. - Ted