From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: e2fsprogs update Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:54:26 -0600 Message-ID: <50E45832.3000206@redhat.com> References: <20130102152757.GA17448@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47431 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752761Ab3ABPy3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:54:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20130102152757.GA17448@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >