On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:24:47AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> My preference would be to have separate "--force-bigalloc" and
> "--force-quota" options instead of lumping everything under a single
> "--force/-f" flag. That can become habitual for one kind of usage
> (e.g. mke2fs on a regular file) and then it also forces other
> dangerous behaviour (such as these) as an unknown side effect.
This would require us to figure out a backwards compatible way of
dealing with using getopt_long() for systems that don't have
getopt_long(). One of the things which I've been thinking about doing
in the 1.43 series is to rename libquota.a to libsupport.a, and then
moving e2fsck/profile.c and some of misc/util.c into libsupport.a.
Then we could optionally include the getopt_long() sources if we are
building on a system that doesn't have it. This assumes that
getopt_long() is portable enough, and I don't know what kind of
dependencies it might drag in....
In the long term, I agree with you.
- Ted
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