Re: [PATCH, RFC] btrfs-progs: require mkfs -f force option to overwrite filesystem or partition table

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On 2/20/13 9:37 AM, Stefan Behrens wrote:

...

> This means that it is now required to change all occurrences of
> "mkfs.btrfs" to "mkfs.btrfs -f" everywhere. Can't we first establish a
> time period of 100 years where the -f option is tolerated and ignored,
> and then in 2113 we require that the users add the -f option?
> 
> (Just had to do this string replacement everywhere, and had to add -f to
> xfstest's _scratch_mkfs in common.rc as well). Sigh.

I'll send a patch today to make xfstests handle both variants cleanly,
I should have done that earlier, sorry.

-Eric

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