On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 04:06:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > When debugfs runs with "-c", it prints a scary-looking message: > > catastrophic mode - not reading inode or group bitmaps > > that is often misunderstood by users to mean that there is something > wrong with the filesystem, when there is no problem at all. > > Not reading the bitmaps is totally normal and expected behavior for > the "-c" option, which is used to significantly shorten the debugfs > command execution time by not reading metadata that isn't needed for > commands run against very large filesystems. > > Since there is often confusion about what this message means, it > would be better to just avoid printing anything at all, since the > use of "-c" is expressly requesting this behavior, and there are > no messages printed out for other options. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Dongyang Li <dongyang@xxxxxxx> > Change-Id: I59b26a601780544ab995aa4ca7ab0c2123c70118 Applied, thanks! - Ted
