linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] - Make mke2fs.c defaults match mke2fs.conf defaults

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Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 14:27:00 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Make mke2fs.c defaults match mke2fs.conf defaults

On May 07, 2007  14:52 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > How likely do you think the case will be that mke2fs.conf would be
> > missing?  I'm trying to figure out how high priority of an item this
> > really is.
> 
> Well, not too likely, although for some reason I guess it happened in
> the installer root in FC6 or so.  That's what raised the issue.

Ah, good point - there are probably lots of installers and rescue disks
that grab mke2fs but don't know anything about /etc/mke2fs.conf.

> > We could enhance the profile code so that it could read in the profile
> > from a memory buffer, and simply compile /etc/mke2fs.conf into mke2fs,
> > but that adds bloat --- the question is how necessary do we think that
> > really is?
> 
> I guess it doesn't really sound *necessary* - it's just that if we have
> 2 different "defaults" and they drift, it can be confusing...

Since the shipped mke2fs.conf is only on the order of a few hundred bytes
I don't think it is a huge issue to include it.  I like the idea of it
being compiled into the code and yet consistent with the default install.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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