Re: [PATCH] fsck: list nonexistent devices that are declared without nofail

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Pardon me for being persistent. Have you missed the email below, or do you
find the argument unconvincing?

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:13:34PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:56:49AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 02:26:58PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> > > fsck -A output does not indicate the offending device(s), when a device is
> > > nonexistent and declared without nofail (e2fsck doesn't mention anything, and
> > > dosfsck outputs just "No such file or directory")
> > 
> >  Hmm... I'd like to be conservative with this kind of warnings. The
> >  "nofail" option is relatively new and I guess that many people still
> >  successfully rely on the old behavior (because e2fsck doesn't mention
> >  anything ;-).
> 
> The motivation is that, currently, fsck bombs out during system boot without
> any hint (which, I hope you'll agree, is not helpful). A -V option won't make
> any difference for this use case.
> 
> >  I have applied the patch below -- it prints the warning if -V
> >  (verbose) option is specified.
> 
> ignore() is called multiple times per filesystem, so it's not the best place
> to put the warning, imho.
> 
> -S
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