linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: journal-replay-only

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Date:	Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:27:14 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Bernd Schubert <bs_lists@...ef.fastmail.fm>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: journal-replay-only

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:09:07AM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> e2fsck: journal-replay-only
> 
> As recently discussed on linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org add an option to e2fsck
> to allow to replay the journal only. That will allow scripts, such as 
> pacemakers 'Filesystem' RA to first replay the journal and if that sets
> an error state from the journal replay, further check for that error 
> (dumpe2fh -h | grep "Filesystem state:") and if that shows and error
> to refuse to mount. It also allows automatic e2fsck scripts to first
> replay the journal and on a second run after the real pass1 to passX checks
> to test for the return code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bschubert@....com>

Hi Bernd,

My apologies for the delay.  I've made some slight cleanups to your
patch, and committed it to the maint branch.  It will be in e2fsprogs
1.41.13.

Thanks!!

						- Ted
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