When dumpe2fs is used on a filesystem mounted read-write, printed information
may be old and inconsistent because e.g. updates of some superblock fields
happen lazily or because we do not really try to handle various intermediate
states of filesystem operations. Document this in the manpage and warn user
when dumpe2fs is used for such filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
misc/dumpe2fs.8.in | 3 ++-
misc/dumpe2fs.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Ted, would you take this change? We actually had to explain to our users that
what they were doing isn't really going to work reliably...
diff --git a/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in b/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
index c1dfcbd..e1336dc 100644
--- a/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ print the version number of
and exit.
.SH BUGS
You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the
-output.
+output. When used with a mounted filesystem, the printed information may be
+old or inconsistent.
.SH AUTHOR
.B dumpe2fs
was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@xxxxxxxxx>. It is currently being
diff --git a/misc/dumpe2fs.c b/misc/dumpe2fs.c
index 9a0dd46..fa1362a 100644
--- a/misc/dumpe2fs.c
+++ b/misc/dumpe2fs.c
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
int flags;
int header_only = 0;
int c;
+ int mount_flags;
#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
@@ -567,6 +568,13 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
printf (_("Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.\n"));
exit (1);
}
+ retval = ext2fs_check_if_mounted(device_name, &mount_flags);
+ if (retval) {
+ com_err("ext2fs_check_if_mount", retval,
+ _("while determining whether %s is mounted."),
+ device_name);
+ exit(1);
+ }
if (print_badblocks) {
list_bad_blocks(fs, 1);
} else {
@@ -595,6 +603,12 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
}
}
ext2fs_close (fs);
+ if ((mount_flags & EXT2_MF_MOUNTED) &&
+ !(mount_flags & EXT2_MF_READONLY)) {
+ fputs(_("The filesystem is read-write mounted so printed"
+ " information may be old or inconsistent.\n"), stderr);
+ }
+
remove_error_table(&et_ext2_error_table);
exit (0);
}
--
1.7.1
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