Re: [PATCH] xfs_io: deprecate the "-F" foreign flag

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On 2/3/12 9:04 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:35:04AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> There's no real reason to force the user to specify "-F" for non-xfs
>> files, when we can just test for that after it's opened.
>>
>> * Remove the -F flag from usage() & man pages, but still accept it.
>> * Set IO_FOREIGN when we open the file, if the fd tests as non-xfs.
> 
> Looks good. We probably should kill the IO_FOREIGN eventually too, but
> let's do the user facing part first.

How would you want to handle non-xfs filesystems in the xfs-specific
commands?  Do the fd test each time?
 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>


Thanks, I'll merge it.

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