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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:04:39 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com> To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] e2fsprogs: Make mke2fs use undo I/O manager. On Aug 01, 2007 07:34 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > When running mke2fs, if a file system is detected > on the device, we use Undo I/O manager as the io manager. > This helps in reverting the changes made to the filesystem > in case we wrongly selected the device. > > The environment variable MKE2FS_SCRATCH_DIR > is used to indicate the directory within which the tdb > file need to be created. The file will be named mke2fs-XXXXXX It might be more useful to have "mke2fs-{dev}-{timestamp}" as the filename, so that it is clear where the image came from. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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