linux-ext4 - Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4

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Message-Id: <B2DFC17F-1CFC-410E-9449-2393D51C700B@illumenos.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 16:00:20 +0200
From:   Felipe A Rodriguez <far@...umenos.com>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4

Upgrading from e2fsprogs-1.42.13 to e2fsprogs-1.43.4 causes the boot loader to fail (unknown filesystem error) on the x86_64 VM I use for initial testing.  I traced the problem to changes in the e2fsprogs configuration file which now sets 64 bit flags.  I tried upgrading to GRUB 2.02 but that did not resolve the problem.  Reverting the changes per the patch below fixes the problem.  


Kernel: 3.16.42, x86_64
Bootloader:  GRUB 2.00
Filesystem:  Ext4



diff -ruN e2fsprogs-1.43.4/misc/mke2fs.conf.in e2fsprogs-1.43.4-patched/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
--- e2fsprogs-1.43.4/misc/mke2fs.conf.in	Wed Feb  1 01:56:32 2017
+++ e2fsprogs-1.43.4-patched/misc/mke2fs.conf.in	Sat Jun  3 23:21:39 2017
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@
 		features = has_journal
 	}
 	ext4 = {
-		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,64bit,dir_nlink,extra_isize
+		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize
+		auto_64-bit_support = 1
 		inode_size = 256
 	}
 	ext4dev = {
-		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,inline_data,64bit,dir_nlink,extra_isize
+		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize
 		inode_size = 256
 		options = test_fs=1
 	}



Regards,

Felipe A. Rodriguez


illumenos LLC
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