[Mageia-dev] [RFC] freeze push: e2fsprogs

Wed May 16 11:14:17 CEST 2012

Hi
+
+A new e2fsprogs has been released (1.42.3) fixing a couple issues with 1.42.2
+(the one we have), including a regression
+
+Do you think we should upgrade to it ?
+
+See the releases notes:
+(http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42.3)
+
+"Fix a bug in the Unix I/O manager which could cause corruption of file
+systems with more than 16TB when e2fsprogs is compiled in 32-bit mode
+(i.e., when unsigned long is 32-bits). Also fix a bug which caused
+dumpe2fs to incorrectly display block numbers > 32-bits.
+
+Improve the support for integrated quota files (where quota is a first
+class supported feature using hidden files in the ext4 file
+system). Previously the quota file was getting rewritten even when it
+was not necessary, and e2fsck would erroneously try to hide quota
+files which were already hidden.
+
+Quiet complaints in e2fsck when the total free blocks or inodes are
+incorrect in the superblock after an system crash, since we don't
+update nor depend on the superblock summaries at each commit boundary.
+
+Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.2 which would cause applications
+outside of e2fsprogs which did not pass the EXT2_FLAG_64BIT (and so
+would were still using the legacy 32-bit bitmaps) to crash. This was
+due to missing 32-bit compat code in side the function
+ext2fs_find_first_zero_generic_bmap(). (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
+#808421)
+
+Fix a bug which would cause mke2fs to fail creating the journal if
+/etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are missing. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
+#3509398)"
+