linux-ext4 - Re: Scripting e2fsck: no errors, but still exit code 1 "FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED"

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 08:28:53 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Bas van Schaik <bas@...es.nl>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scripting e2fsck: no errors, but still exit code 1 "FILE
	SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED"

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:37:37PM +0200, Bas van Schaik wrote:
> However, there is a slight
> problem with scripting e2fsck: it seems that e2fsck /always/ exits with
> exit code 1 just because of the fact that the snapshot journal has been
> replayed. Because of this, the script cannot tell whether there is a
> real problem or not and keeps e-mailing me. This is a typical output of
> such an e2fsck run:

Simply replying the journal should not cause e2fsck to have an exit
code of 1.  It must have done something else.  The common one was
clearing the LARGE_FILES feature flag if the filesystem didn't have
one, but that was removed as of 1.40.7.  Can you take a snapshot, run
dumpe2fs, run e2fsck -fy /dev/loop1, and then run dumpe2fs again, and
send me a before and after?

						- Ted
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