Bug 167562

Summary:	Plain e2fsprogs release should not be supporting ext4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maurice Volaski <mvolaski>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bensberg, correo, kanelxake, yamadharma
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maurice Volaski 2007-02-19 01:30:23 UTC

Ext4 is intended for development, not mainstream use. The patches for it are summarily being included in 1.39-r1 per bug 156697.

These patches causes problems. For one, when I tried to initialize a 2+ TB filesystem, the 64bit flag was applied, but ext3 in the kernel does not about this flag and it was not able to use the filesystem. Presumably, there could be other problems.

Please see messages on the ext3 mailing list posted by the programmer:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2007-February/msg00014.html
and
https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2007-February/msg00017.html

I suggest providing a separate ebuild for a version containing the patches and masking that version everywhere.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-02-27 15:31:34 UTC

*** Bug 168315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Mikko Tiihonen 2007-03-17 09:35:44 UTC

With ext4 patches the e2fsprogs does not even pass its own tests, see bug #159834.

Could we at least have an ext4 USE flag to control applying of the patches?
And if enabled print a warning that the tool is not fully compatible with ext3.

Comment 3 Maurice Volaski 2007-03-17 21:02:30 UTC

That sounds reasonable to me.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-03-24 08:49:36 UTC

*** Bug 159834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-03-24 08:52:15 UTC

fixed in 1.39-r2

Comment 6 Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2007-04-04 06:40:32 UTC

It's not fixed.

You didn't provide ext4 flag or ebuild.
I have to mask the newer version just to use ext4 - and this means I won't get the newest fixes.

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-04-04 07:17:15 UTC

nor do i plan to

if you want ext4, use 1.39-r1 until it gets merged into a real version

Comment 8 crypt 2007-04-25 17:42:38 UTC

 (In reply to comment #7)
> nor do i plan to
> 
> if you want ext4, use 1.39-r1 until it gets merged into a real version
> 

Grreate! And now when you've droped ext4 support and my system at work doesn't boot I must search in bug list, why. Ofcause, i fix my trouble, but would you possible to do more correct fixes next time.

Comment 9 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-05-04 22:04:16 UTC

maybe some day if you are a developer you can make these sort of calls ... until then, you're not having to maintain the package, so you can deal with the reality

Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-02 18:43:40 UTC

*** Bug 212099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***