linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] default max mount count to unused

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:42:38 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	tytso@....edu
CC:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	LVM Mailing List <linux-lvm@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] default max mount count to unused

tytso@....edu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:22:55PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> Alasdair, any chance you can include this script into the LVM package?
>>
>> Ted, this should really be added to e2fsprogs, and the e2croncheck
>> script removed.  The existing e2croncheck script is broken in a
>> number of ways (e.g. the force check timestamp 19000101 is invalid,
>> the email reporting doesn't work because "$RPT-EMAIL" is never set)
>> and is less functional in other ways (it doesn't remove stale
>> snapshots in case of an interrupted script, it doesn't check
>> multiple LVs, etc).
> 
> Sure, I'd be happy to include this to e2fsprogs.  I'm not sure which
> distro package should be installing it, but we can leave that up to
> the distro maintainers.
> 
> 					- Ted


Last time around, we all seemed to think it should be in the lvm
tools (though I don't remember exactly why - probably because it's
really not ext*-specific at all)

It got forwarded to the LVM list, agk asked if anyone wanted to
clean it up & take ownership of it, and that was the end.  :(

-Eric
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