On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:17:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> 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>
I decided to move the warning in the man page to the DESCRIPTION
section, since it's really not a bug, but something which should be
self-evident.
And I also decided for that reasn to not have dumpe2fs print it. If
users complain, we can now just tell them to RTFM.
- Ted
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