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Re: REVIEW: fix xfs_bmap -vp confusion

To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: REVIEW: fix xfs_bmap -vp confusion
From: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:53:47 +1000
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:18:20PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> If xfs_bmap -vp is run on a file without unwritten extents
> and the filesystem does not use sunit/swidth, the FLAGS
> column is not shown. This leads to some confusion.
> 
> So, when -vp option is used, it will always print the
> FLAGS column.

I note that it only prints the legend if a flag is set. I guess
this is ok, but maybe it would be more consistent to always
print the legend? Or even to make the legend optional (which
would make dumping more than one file more compact)?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group


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