linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] dumpe2fs: Warn when filesystem is mounted read-write

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Message-ID: <20111008175001.GE7948@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:50:01 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dumpe2fs: Warn when filesystem is mounted read-write

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:17:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When dumpe2fs is used on a filesystem mounted read-write, printed information
> may be old and inconsistent because e.g. updates of some superblock fields
> happen lazily or because we do not really try to handle various intermediate
> states of filesystem operations. Document this in the manpage and warn user
> when dumpe2fs is used for such filesystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

I decided to move the warning in the man page to the DESCRIPTION
section, since it's really not a bug, but something which should be
self-evident.

And I also decided for that reasn to not have dumpe2fs print it.  If
users complain, we can now just tell them to RTFM.

      		       	   	     	  - Ted
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