Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-21 Thread Roland McGrath
I don't know what the reason really was for that code in the first place (Miles wrote it). I suspect it was just transcribed from ufs. In the ufs format it is improper for the block count to be nonzero in a free inode. For ext2fs, the observed behavior of the Linux kernel is all we have to const

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-21 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:11:46AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Roland, et al., > > Would you accept a patch to add a configure option that removes the > annoying 'free inode' warning messages? I can set it on by default, > if you'd like. > > My final preference would be to leave it disabled unt

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:00:08PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > I don't think the danger (or lack thereof) presented by these warnings > > > is being dsiputed. It is simply very annoying. I have a patition > > > for developmen

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > I don't think the danger (or lack thereof) presented by these warnings > > is being dsiputed. It is simply very annoying. I have a patition > > for development that I use both in linux and Hurd. > > I think it was; Roland mentio

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Neal H Walfield
> I don't think the danger (or lack thereof) presented by these warnings > is being dsiputed. It is simply very annoying. I have a patition > for development that I use both in linux and Hurd. I think it was; Roland mentioned this earlier. > And when I run > a build from that partition while in

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:56:20PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > Would you accept a patch to add a configure option that removes the > > annoying 'free inode' warning messages? I can set it on by default, > > if you'd like. > > > > My final preference would be to leave it disabled until e2fs

Re: Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Would you accept a patch to add a configure option that removes the > annoying 'free inode' warning messages? I can set it on by default, > if you'd like. > > My final preference would be to leave it disabled until e2fsck is > willing to fix the problem when the FS is checked with -f, but havi

Annoying free inode warnings

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff Bailey
Roland, et al., Would you accept a patch to add a configure option that removes the annoying 'free inode' warning messages? I can set it on by default, if you'd like. My final preference would be to leave it disabled until e2fsck is willing to fix the problem when the FS is checked with -f, but