On May 07, 2007 14:52 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > How likely do you think the case will be that mke2fs.conf would be > > missing? I'm trying to figure out how high priority of an item this > > really is. > > Well, not too likely, although for some reason I guess it happened in > the installer root in FC6 or so. That's what raised the issue. Ah, good point - there are probably lots of installers and rescue disks that grab mke2fs but don't know anything about /etc/mke2fs.conf. > > We could enhance the profile code so that it could read in the profile > > from a memory buffer, and simply compile /etc/mke2fs.conf into mke2fs, > > but that adds bloat --- the question is how necessary do we think that > > really is? > > I guess it doesn't really sound *necessary* - it's just that if we have > 2 different "defaults" and they drift, it can be confusing... Since the shipped mke2fs.conf is only on the order of a few hundred bytes I don't think it is a huge issue to include it. I like the idea of it being compiled into the code and yet consistent with the default install. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
