Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2010-03-11, at 19:48, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:53:09PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> RH bug 569021 - mke2fs insists on user interaction even if stdin is >>> not a tty and -F is passed >>> >>> This is just a warning, -F should easily override it. > > Since this is just a warning, do we really need to have "-F" at all? I > dislike requiring "-F" on common actions, because it means that it will > commonly be used, but may accidentally override some unintended problem. > > We've lived without block device alignment until now, and it seems > somewhat unpleasant that mke2fs may start failing (if -F is not given) > for situations where it previously worked just fine. Well, that's a good point, dropping the -F requirement is fine with me too, I guess. Ted do you want to just toss in: - if (!force) - proceed_question(); ? I can send a patch but it may take longer for you to extract it from email ;) -Eric -- 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
