linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: return more status if fsck aborts

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Message-ID: <20111120205640.GA14568@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:56:40 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: return more status if fsck aborts

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:32:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> If we abort fsck (due to ENOMEM for example) we exit
> with only the FSCK_ERROR flag.  It seems useful
> to do the same sorts of checks as we do on normal
> exit, and return whether the filesystem was modified,
> whether there are still uncorrected errors, etc, even
> in the abort case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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