Bugzilla Bug 71159

Fedora Core 3 introduced a new feature:

  Kernel and e2fsprogs support for online growing of ext3 file systems

as it is reported in its release notes (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html).

In order to achieve this, a new feature (resize_inode) is used in the filesystem.

In a multiboot computer, Gentoo Linux has difficulties with this new introduced feature when dealing with partitions shared with Fedora Core 3. When booting Gentoo in my computer, fsck.ext3 gives the message

  fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
  e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!

and checking another partions always fails (at boot time) with the message

  fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed

This is just related to the new feature introduced by Fedora Core 3.

In order to keep compatibility between Gentoo and Fedora Core 3, support for online growing of ext3 file systems should also be introced in Gentoo.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

See the topic http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=251319 in the forum.

After rebuilding e2fsprogs with the patch e2fsprogs-resize.patch (taken from
the Fedora Core 3 e2fsprogs source RPM package:
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2.src.rpm),
the problems reported by fsck.ext3 are gone.

Maybe it is a good idea to apply this patch to the e2fsprogs ebuild in portage.

if this is going to be merged with upstream e2fsprogs CVS, i'll happily add it
to our packages

until then, no

This issue seems to be resolved with e2fsprogs-1.36. At least for me.

Indeed, this is fixed with e2fsprogs-1.36, now marked stable on ia64 with
others to follow eventually.