linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsprogs maint branch and metadata

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Message-ID: <20130107185350.GA17250@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:53:50 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsprogs maint branch and metadata_csum option

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote:
> In today's concall, I reported an e2fsprogs maint branch test failure I'd
> just seen with Ted's xfstests-bld harness.  When running the
> metadata_csum,64bit scenario, the result was an immediate mkfs failure with
> the following diagnostic: Invalid filesystem option set: metadata_csum,64bit
> 
> The metadata_csum option alone was enough to trigger the error.  However, a
> look at the maint branch code suggests that it doesn't contain the
> metadata_csum support found in the master branch.  I'm guessing my
> expectations about the current state of the maint branch were wrong and that
> we'll pick up the metadata_csum feature on the merge to master?

Yes, the metadata_csum feature will be in the 1.43 release.  I've
deliberately not included that in the maint branch, which is for the
1.42.x maintenance releases.

							- Ted
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