[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 0/22] tunefs rework

[Mark Fasheh]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:07:38PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> [Open Question]
> 
> Some tunefs.ocfs2 options were actually feature flags.  For example,
> '-M cluster' is really '--fs-features=nolocal'.  ocfs2ne supports both
> methods for all of these options.  It is fully compatible with
> tunefs.ocfs2, and adds the ability to specify these feature flags in
> --fs-features.  The actual work is done as a feature method.
> 
> The question is, what do we print in the output of '--help'?  Do we tell
> people to prefer the old way, mention the old way but mark it as
> deprecated, or leave out the old way and only describe the
> '--fs-features' way?  I chose the last one, but it's trivial to change.

How does other software handle this? I could go either way. Perhaps the
easiest is to just leave out the deprecated options?


> 3) "It's quiet."  "Yeah, too quiet."
> 
>    The old tunefs.ocfs2 was very chatty.  This doesn't fit with a normal
>    command-line program that only tells you when something goes wrong.
>    The new code has proper verbosity levels - just keep adding '-v' for
>    more noise.  Say '-i' like cp(1), mv(1), and rm(1) if you want
>    ocfs2ne to ask you questions.

This is a great improvement btw  :)
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh