linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] misc: add e2mmpstatus utility

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Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:17:16 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Shuichi Ihara <sihara@....com>,
        Li Xi <lixi@....com>, Wang Shilong <wshilong@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: add e2mmpstatus utility

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 02:22:44AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> From: Shuichi Ihara <sihara@....com>
> 
> e2mmpstatus is an MMP helper utility to read status from an MMP block.
> It outputs the latest MMP updated nodename and time for the device.

Why not include this into dumpe2fs?  Maybe dumpe2fs -m to just print
the MMP information and include the MMP nodetime and time for either
the full dumpe2fs or dumpe2fs -h output?

						- Ted