linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] - ignore bind mounts in fsck

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Message-ID: <20070920144245.GD30221@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:42:45 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] - ignore bind mounts in fsck

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Agreed.  If you think fsck shouldn't silently cope with this mistake,
> and instead punish the user for it (it is what they asked for, after
> all), I'm ok with that too.  I'm willing to close my end as NOTABUG if
> you don't want to take this patch.  :)

I'm willing to take the patch, although I am thinking that it might be
appropriate for fsck to print a warning message --- "Bind mount with
non-zero fsck pass, skipping", or some such.

What do you think?

							- Ted
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