linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] resize2fs: don't require fsck to print min size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20141215001206.GS29787@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:12:06 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resize2fs: don't require fsck to print min size

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:19:56AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> My previous change ended up requiring that the filesystem
> be fsck'd after the last mount, even if we are only querying
> the minimum size.  This is a bit draconian, and it burned
> the Fedora installer, which wants to calculate minimum size
> for every filesystem in the box at install time, which in turn
> requires a full fsck of every filesystem.
> 
> Try this one more time, and separate out the tests to make things
> a bit more clear.  If we're only printing the min size, don't
> require the fsck, as this is a bit less dangerous/critical.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Applied with a minor whitespace fixup, thanks.

				- Ted
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html