On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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(); Yeah, I'll just make the change on my end. -- Ted -- 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
