From: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
To: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>,
"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:24:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204503849.10190.26.camel@edge.scott.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CB43EE.3060405@sgi.com>
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 11:18 +1100, Donald Douwsma wrote:
>
>
> Could work but I dont like the idea of using -f for anything but
> mkfsing an
> existing filesystem. If that becomes habit for people it could lead to
> disasters.
Its already used for more than just overwriting existing filesystems. :)
And it is already habit for some people. Which leads to disasters, yes.
Its not a perfect system, but there's only so much you can do for people
before they shoot themselves in the foot.
--
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 1:09 [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs Barry Naujok
2008-02-28 2:35 ` Nathan Scott
2008-02-29 21:21 ` Russell Cattelan
2008-02-29 23:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-29 23:19 ` Russell Cattelan
2008-02-29 23:47 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-02-29 23:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-03-01 0:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-03-02 23:59 ` Barry Naujok
2008-03-01 0:02 ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2008-03-02 23:34 ` Nathan Scott
2008-03-03 0:16 ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-03-03 0:30 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-03-03 1:15 ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2008-03-03 3:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-03-03 4:14 ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2008-03-03 4:19 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-03-03 4:47 ` Niv Sardi
2008-03-03 0:18 ` Donald Douwsma
2008-03-03 0:24 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2008-03-02 10:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-02 10:41 ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
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