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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: guard against more "dangerous" userspace options
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:48:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8D6228.1070006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090820062730.GA23232@skywalker.linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:43:24PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I'll keep it short and sweet:
>>
>> Can we add a consistent "--eatmydata" type of hurdle to jump over before
>> people are allowed to use either the so-far-less-tested tools and/or
>> options therein?
>>
>> I'm thinking of, so far:
> ......
>> tune2fs -I <bigger>
> 
> I have sent patches which should make this better. Any chance to get that reviwed and
> applied
> 
> -aneesh

Better, or _safe_?  :)

No offense and I certainly appreciate that work.  If you feel it's
robust enough now to safely unleash on users, I'll drop it from my list.  :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11 20:43 RFC: guard against more "dangerous" userspace options Eric Sandeen
2009-08-20  6:27 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-08-20 14:48   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-08-21  7:02     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-08-21 14:40       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-21 16:08       ` Andreas Dilger

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