linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 13/34] misc: add plausibility checks to debugfs/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/e2fsck

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Message-ID: <20140919230006.GU26995@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:00:06 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/34] misc: add plausibility checks to
 debugfs/tune2fs/dumpe2fs/e2fsck

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 03:12:39PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If any of these utilities detect a bad superblock magic, call
> check_plausibility to see if blkid can identify the passed-in argument
> as something else (xfs, partition, etc.) in the hopes of catching a
> user error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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