linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size constraint.

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Message-ID: <20100731004058.GD31324@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:40:58 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Chris Frost <chris@...stnet.net>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mke2fs.8.in: clarify the sign of a block-size
 constraint.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:59:42AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This bit of the mke2fs manpage is slightly confusing:
> 
> -b block-size
>     Specify the size of blocks in bytes. <snip>
>     If block-size is negative, then mke2fs will use heuristics 
>     to determine the appropriate block size, with the constraint 
>     that the block size will be at least block-size bytes.
> 
> because it sounds like the block size will be at least a negative
> number.  Clarify just what the negative sign means.
> 
> Reported-by: Chris Frost <chris@...stnet.net>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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