On Wednesday 09 of May 2012 19:18:07 David Sterba wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:11:45PM +0200, Hubert Kario wrote: > > nice, didn't know about this. Such functionality would be nice to have. > > But then I don't think that a "recreate the array if the parameters are > > the > > same" is actually a good idea, lots of space for error. A pair of > > functions: > > > > btrfs dev zero-superblock > > btrfs dev restore-superblock > > As a user, I'm not sure what can I expect from the restore command. From > where does it restore? Eg. a file? > > As a tester I have use for a temporary clearing of a superblock on a > device, then mount it with -o degraded, work work, and then undo > clearing. So, my idea is like > > btrfs device zero-superblock --undo > > with the obvious sanity checks. A regular user would never need to call > this.
Yes, that's a better idea. -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
