On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 12:10:57AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

I've tried it out, and I think 5 seconds is enough time.  I'll note
that just hitting the return key will abort the operation, so the user
has to type 'y', return in order to continue.  In fact I will probaby
change the prompt so it looks like this:

Proceed anyway (or wait %d seconds) (y,n) ? <n>

Seems fine to me.

--D

This should make it clear that if the sysadmin is not sure, just
hitting return is enough to cancel the operation.

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On Feb 13, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Darrick J. Wong [off-list ref] wrote:

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Give admins a short amount of time to confirm that they want to
proceed with a dangerous operation.  Refuse to perform the op
unless the filesystem is freshly checked.

Cc: Andreas Dilger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted