Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: convert, warn if converting a fs which won't mount

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 10:14:20AM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> > the conversion.
> > 
> > I've tried mkfs.ext4 with 64k block size and it warns and in the
> > interactive session wants to confirm that by the user:
> > 
> >    $ mkfs.ext4 -b 64k img
> >    Warning: blocksize 65536 not usable on most systems.
> >    mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
> >    img contains a ext4 file system
> > 	  created on Tue Mar  3 18:41:46 2020
> >    Proceed anyway? (y,N) y
> >    mkfs.ext4: 65536-byte blocks too big for system (max 4096)
> >    Proceed anyway? (y,N) y
> >    Warning: 65536-byte blocks too big for system (max 4096), forced to continue
> >    Creating filesystem with 32768 64k blocks and 32768 inodes
> > 
> >    Allocating group tables: done
> >    Writing inode tables: done
> >    Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
> >    Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> > 
> 
> Just warn is reasonable. But I don't think you meant to introduce
> interactive part similar to mkfs.ext4 in btrfs-convert?

No I haven't meant that. So let's go with the warning.



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