linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 27/25] tune2fs: always check disable_uninit

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Message-ID: <20140911220702.GC17990@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:07:02 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	TR Reardon <thomas_reardon@...mail.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/25] tune2fs: always check disable_uninit_bg() return
 code

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:43:33PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Enhance disable_uninit_bg() to return error codes -- if something goes
> wrong, we want to flag the FS as needing a fsck and exit.  Mr. Reardon
> discovered that tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum on a FS with a corrupt
> bitmap would leave the FS in a weird state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> Reported-by: TR Reardon <thomas_reardon@...mail.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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