linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 10/10] e2fsck: Report only one sb corruption

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:35:12 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] e2fsck: Report only one sb corruption

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> check_super_value() does not terminate in case of error anymore since
> c8b20b40ebf0 "misc: add plausibility checks to
> debugfs/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/e2fsck" which removed the PR_FATAL flag from
> PR_0_SB_CORRUPT problem. This results in potentially many errors for
> superblock being printed including the long message about how to deal
> with corrupted superblock. Restore the original behavior of reporting
> only one error and also remove the comments 'never get here' as they are
> not true anymore.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted