On 2012-02-08, at 1:56 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We shipped "mke4fs" alongside mke2fs in RHEL5, so that ext4-capable
> utilities could be installed without disturbing the venerable e2fsprogs-1.39
> shipped in RHEL5 from the beginning. But it surprised some users that
> "mke4fs" created ext2 filesystems by default rather than ext4.
> While it was my intent to have the renamed binaries behave exactly
> like the stock ones, it seems that there is some precedence for
> handling "mkeNfs" in the code, so seems reasonable to add
> mke4fs -> ext4 as well.
Makes sense I think.
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This probably doesn't matter much to upstream, but it seems consistent
> with the existing code, below, if you'd like to include it.
>
>
> diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
> index e97e44e..410f880 100644
> --- a/misc/mke2fs.c
> +++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
> @@ -1014,6 +1014,8 @@ static char **parse_fs_type(const char *fs_type,
> ext_type = "ext2";
> else if (!strcmp(program_name, "mke3fs"))
> ext_type = "ext3";
> + else if (!strcmp(program_name, "mke4fs"))
> + ext_type = "ext4";
> else if (progname) {
> ext_type = strrchr(progname, '/');
> if (ext_type)
>
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Cheers, Andreas
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