linux-ext4 - Re: [4/6] mke2fs: Deprecate -K option, introduce discard/nodiscard

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Message-ID: <20101123151730.GD32759@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:17:30 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	sandeen@...hat.com, adilger@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [4/6] mke2fs: Deprecate -K option, introduce discard/nodiscard

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:38:39AM -0000, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> It would be nice to have consistent "discard" options in every system
> tool (mount, fsck, mkfs) taking advantage of discards. Also "discard"
> and "nodiscard" is more descriptive instead of just "-K" and can be
> easily defaulted and it is something we can not do with "-K".
> 
> With this commit you need to specify extended option like this:
> 
> ./mke2fs -T <fstype> -E nodiscard <device>
> 
> in order make a filesystem without discarding the device first. And
> 
> ./mke2fs -T <fstype> -E discard <device>
> 
> respectively.
> 
> -K option is with this commit deprecated and should not be used anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Applied to the maint branch of e2fsprogs, so it will make 1.41.13.

	       	     	       		     - Ted
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