From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, james.faulkner@yale.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tune2fs: allow removal of dirty journal with two "-f" options
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:34:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221013449.GA31047@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52CF01AB.7030704@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:08:11PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jim pointed out that "tune2fs -f -O ^has_journal" won't remove the
> journal if the needs_recovery flag is set; the manpage seems to indicate
> that it should. And if you've lost an external journal and can no longer
> replay it, how should one proceed?
>
> Change tune2fs so that two "-f" options will allow removal of a dirty
> journal from a filesystem, even if the filesystem needs recovery.
>
> e2fsck can then do its best to pick up the pieces.
>
> Reported-by: Jim Faulkner <james.faulkner@yale.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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2014-01-09 20:08 [PATCH] tune2fs: allow removal of dirty journal with two "-f" options Eric Sandeen
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