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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] xfs_quota: additional changes to allow use on ext4
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:34:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822053455.GT19025@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c1b4044-ff69-f891-a4f4-b302bd3bfef3@sandeen.net>

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:46:14PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 8/21/16 10:34 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 8/21/16 9:06 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:16:38AM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> >> static int
> >> init_check_command(
> >> 	const cmdinfo_t *ct)
> >> {
> >> 	if (!fspath)
> >> 		return 1;
> >>
> >> 	/* Always run commands that we are told to skip here */
> >> 	if (ct->flags & CMD_SKIP_CHECK)
> >> 		return 1;
> >>
> >> 	/* if it's an XFS filesystem, always run the command */
> >> 	if (!(fs_path->fs_flags & FS_FOREIGN))
> >> 		return 1;
> > 
> > Sorry for the late review; thanks for getting on it, Dave - but,
> > isn't "foreign ok" exactly == "skip check?"
> > 
> > The only check that gets skipped is the foreign check, so just
> > setting FOREIGN_OK seems to accomplish the same thing without
> > more flag complexity, no?
> 
> Oh, the subliminal brain reminded me that we want to be able to
> issue help or quit whether or not we had the "-f" flag, regardless
> of the filesystem, and that "foreign" isn't ok unless the -f flag
> is set, so we do need a class of "always works" commands.

Right, but that was something that was done in patch 1/3. I pointed
out that no mention of it was made in the cmmit message there....

> I guess that was the point of the patch, but I suppose some clarity
> in comments or commitlog would help slow people like me.  ;)

Right. better explanations needed all round :P

Cheers,

Dave.

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16 14:16 [PATCH v2 0/3] xfs_quota: allow operation on ext4 for project quotas Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-16 14:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] xfs_quota: add capabilities for use on ext4 Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-22  1:47   ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-22 16:02     ` Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-23  0:09       ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-23  0:24         ` Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-16 14:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] xfs_quota: changes to accomodate hoisted ioctl defs Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-22  1:18   ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-22 13:16     ` Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-16 14:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] xfs_quota: additional changes to allow use on ext4 Bill O'Donnell
2016-08-22  2:06   ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-22  3:34     ` Eric Sandeen
2016-08-22  4:46       ` Eric Sandeen
2016-08-22  5:34         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-08-22 13:20           ` Bill O'Donnell

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