linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 11/34] dumpe2fs: output cleanup

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Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:04:33 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, TR Reardon <thomas_reardon@...mail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/34] dumpe2fs: output cleanup

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 01:00:05PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:22:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 03:12:26PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > Don't display unused inodes twice, and make it clear that we're
> > > printing a descriptor checksum.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> > > Cc: TR Reardon <thomas_reardon@...mail.com>
> > 
> > One problem with the current output format is that exceeds the 80
> > character line limit pretty blatently:
> > 
> > Group 3: (Blocks 24577-32768) [INODE_UNINIT, BLOCK_UNINIT, ITABLE_ZEROED]
> >   Checksum 0x5bd9, unused inodes 2048
> >   Backup superblock at 24577, Group descriptors at 24578-24578
> >   Reserved GDT blocks at 24579-24833
> >   Block bitmap at 261 (bg #0 + 260), csum 0x00000000, Inode bitmap at 269 (bg #0 + 268), csum 0x00000000
> >   Inode table at 1042-1297 (bg #0 + 1041)
> >   7935 free blocks, 2048 free inodes, 0 directories, 2048 unused inodes
> >   Free blocks: 24834-32768
> >   Free inodes: 6145-8192
> > 
> > If we are printing the checksum, we probably need to insert a line
> > break and indent before printing the Inode bitmap.  Does that seem
> > reasonable?
> 
> Seems fine to me, since other BG fields get their own line anyway.  Do you want
> me to make a(nother) patch, or have you already fixed this up in git?

Done, but it's a huge patch (~4700 lines) on account of having to change a lot
of testcases' expect files.

I could change the patch to emit the newline before the inode bitmap line only
if metadata_csum is present.  It would make the output less consistent, though.
What do you think, Ted?

--D

> 
> --D
> > 
> > 						- Ted
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