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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:32:00 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com> CC: "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: RHEL e2fsprogs-1.40.4-sb_feature_check_ignore.patch On 7/18/14, 2:50 PM, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > I was looking through the RHEL e2fsprogs.spec file and saw that you are > still > carrying the e2fsprogs-1.40.4-sb_feature_check_ignore.patch to avoid > problems > if the kernel sets xattrs on a new filesystem and doesn't copy this into > the > backup superblock. Ugh, yeah, that's just been there forever, TBH, I forgot about it. I'll actually have to refamiliarize myself with why it showed up years ago! :) > It seems that mke2fs enables the xattr feature in the superblock by default > for all filesystems (courtesy of misc/default_profile.c), and e2fsck > doesn't > drop COMPAT_EXT_XATTR even if the filesystem doesn't have xattrs, so most > of > the danger of not having this patch are behind us. > > That said, it probably still makes sense to include this patch into the > upstream e2fsprogs, unless there is some reason not to? It looks pretty > low risk. Well, ISTR at the time I added it, it was a hacky workaround, rather than a proper fix. I'll have to look at it again. -eric > Cheers, Andreas > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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