linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add more intelligent handling of the mke2fs.conf installation process

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Message-id: <20080716212949.GV6239@webber.adilger.int>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:29:49 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add more intelligent handling of the mke2fs.conf
	installation process

On Jul 16, 2008  13:52 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So if /etc/mk2fs.conf exists, but does not mention ext4dev, we will
> move it aside to /etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fsprogs-old and then install the
> new mke2fs.conf.  If the /etc/mke2fs.conf file exists but does mention
> ext4dev, we install the new mke2fs.conf file as
> /etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fsprogs-new.  In both we print warning to the user
> so they can manually make any changes as needed.

What about just adding the ext4/ext4dev stanzas into the existing file?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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