linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsprogs update

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:54:26 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs update

On 1/2/13 9:27 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:24:20PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>>
>> One known issue.  There still seems to be some resize2fs problems when
>> the 64-bit feature is set when doing off-line (unmounted) resizing.
> 
> One thought.... since the problems are limited to issues with the bg
> accounting and block bitmap, one hack we could do if we can't figure
> out the bug sooner enough would be to throw in a check where if we are
> doing an off-line resize with 64-bit filesystems, to mark the file
> system has needing an fsck and requesting the user to run fsck before
> using the file system.
> 
> It's ugly, and it will screw up programs like parted which invoke
> resize2fs, but (a) it's better what happens if people try using
> resize2fs with 64-bit file systems with current versions of e2fsprogs,
> and (b) at least online resizing with 64-bit file systems works
> (assuming you have a sufficiently new kernel).
> 
> Not something I want to do, but if it takes too long to track down
> these last defects with resize2fs, I'd rather get 1.42.7 out the door
> sooner rather later, given the other known bugs in resize2fs and
> e2fsck which are unfixed in 1.42.6 and earlier versions (see the
> updated RELEASE-NOTES for more details).

Apologies for not following more closely, but is this problem 
a new regression, an old regression, or something that has never
worked?

-Eric

> 						- Ted
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