From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: guard against more "dangerous" userspace options
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:40:44 -0500
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Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:48:08AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

...

>>>> I'm thinking of, so far:
>>> ......
>>>> tune2fs -I <bigger>
>>> I have sent patches which should make this better. Any chance to get that reviwed and
>>> applied
>>>
>>> -aneesh
>> Better, or _safe_?  :)
>>
>> No offense and I certainly appreciate that work.  If you feel it's
>> robust enough now to safely unleash on users, I'll drop it from my list.  :)
> 
> I am interested in the test results. Getting more users to test would always
> be nice. 

yep it's a tricky spot, asking users to test potentially dangerous code
in real life.

> But it still would help to get a through review.

Agree, sorry I haven't yet done that.

-Eric

> 
> -aneesh