On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:14 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> We could argue about whether or not e2fsck should explicitly ask for
> permission before using a backup superblock, and possibly printing the
> label and validating the size, etc., before using it

In that case, I think it should. At least, that would kill the confusion
where preen mode apparently doesn't want to automate a potentially
dangerous operation, whereas the standard mode works extremely hard to
complete the operation with no user intervention (and doesn't even
require as much info from the user!).

Thanks.
-- 
Daniel Drake
Brontes Technologies, A 3M Company

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