On Sunday August 26 2007 12:33:32 pm Ulrich Drepper wrote:
So, nothing devious is going on. It's just that the maintainers of the tools know that most people do not know about the new features and/or will not enable new features on their own for fear. This is why e2fsck does it by itself for safe options.
Nice detective work. I wouldn't have thought to read those man pages. The warnings were phrased in such a way as to raise alarm-bells, so I did some minimal investigating - minimal because there was no detectable downside after my machine came back up. Thanks for clearing that up.