Re: [PATCH] fsck.xfs: allow forced repairs using xfs_repair

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/14/18 9:30 AM, Jan Tulak wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If it's critical to report whether errors were fixed, it would be
>>> trivial to add a new option to xfs_repair which causes it to test
>>> fs_is_dirty for runs without "-n", and exit with a different
>>> value.
>>
>> I have toyed with it a bit and this seems to be the best option. A
>> flag that changes the exit code on a successful run. Is exit code 3
>> ok? According to man page, only 1 and 2 are currently used and the
>> "everything is ok now, but an issue was there" should not be mixed
>> with the existing ones. I also thought about a flag that would
>> change all exit codes to fsck ones, but that seems too complicated
>> and completely unnecessary.
>
> Hm, I guess we'll have to.

We can either map xfs_repair to fsck in the fsck.xfs script, or change
xfs_repair to use the fsck exit codes. I'm for the first variant (just
add a one new exit code for xfs_repair and remap it for fsck codes in
the script) rather than complicate xfs_repair with two sets of exit
codes.

Jan
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