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| author | Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2007-08-13 15:56:26 +0530 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-04-27 19:57:52 -0400 |
| commit | b626b39a8c87dfb6d973b4ad7eca1eefa659d3d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 842f99683953aeab2b4c2aef05fa40bc4735f7b7 /misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in | |
| parent | c86085044195c8b721fe9ee327d790316399781e (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-b626b39a8c87dfb6d973b4ad7eca1eefa659d3d6.tar.gz | |
mke2fs: Add support for the undo I/O manager.
When running mke2fs, if a file system is detected
on the device, we use Undo I/O manager as the io manager.
This helps in reverting the changes made to the filesystem
in case we wrongly selected the device.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in b/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in index 6734bf39..06592f23 100644 --- a/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in +++ b/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in @@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ command-line option to .BR mke2fs (8). .TP +.I force_undo +This relation, if set to a boolean value of true, forces +.B mke2fs +to always try to create an undo file, even if the undo file might be +huge and it might extend the time to create the filesystem image +because the inode table isn't being initialized lazily. +.TP .I fs_type This relation specifies the default filesystem type if the user does not specify it via the @@ -140,6 +147,15 @@ This relation specifies the default inode size if the user does not specify one on the command line, and the filesystem-type specific section of the configuration file does not specify a default inode size. +.TP +.I undo_dir +This relation specifies the directory where the undo file should be +stored. It can be overriden via the +.B E2FSPROGS_UNDO_DIR +environemnt variable. If the directory location is set to the value +.IR none , +.B mke2fs +will not create an undo file. .SH THE [fs_types] STANZA Each tag in the .I [fs_types] |