e2fsprogs maint branch and metadata_csum option
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?
If so, there's no bug here - sorry for the noise.
Thanks,
Eric
Quoted 10 lines · Eric Whitney
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
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metadata_csumoption alone was enough to trigger the error. However, a look at the maint branch code suggests that it doesn't contain themetadata_csumsupport 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 themetadata_csumfeature 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