I've tried it out, and I think 5 seconds is enough time. I'll note that just hitting the return key will abort the operation, so the user has to type 'y', return in order to continue. In fact I will probaby change the prompt so it looks like this: Proceed anyway (or wait %d seconds) (y,n) ? <n> This should make it clear that if the sysadmin is not sure, just hitting return is enough to cancel the operation. > > On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Give admins a short amount of time to confirm that they want to > > > proceed with a dangerous operation. Refuse to perform the op > > > unless the filesystem is freshly checked. > > > > > > Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - 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