[PATCH] xfs_mkfs: wipe old signatures from the device

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 13, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
> it is the responsibility of filesystem
> tools to behave sanely, not for the rest of the world to have to
> work around the dangerous behaviour of a specific filesystems'
> toolset.

I appreciate this, and in particular that mkfs.xfs doesn't nerf a file system without the use of -f; even an existing XFS file system. Considering most data loss is user induced, I'd appreciate it if other file systems's tools weren't so easily made belligerent by (hopefully temporarily) confused apes wearing pants.

Chris Murphy