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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:25:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080127052535.GD24842@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479C0DBE.4000606@redhat.com>

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:51:10PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > This is what I've checked in.  See the comment about why we can't
> > ignore a difference for the extended attribute feature.
> 
> Ok.  Unfortunately, that one really hurts on fedora, or any distro which
> writes xattrs during install.

The right fix is to simply force the extended attribute features on in
mke2fs.  We can do this in mke2fs.conf.  I plan to change it so that
by default it's enabled for ext3 filesystems.

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-27  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-22 17:37 [PATCH e2fsprogs] ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks Eric Sandeen
2008-01-25 18:29 ` [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: " Eric Sandeen
2008-01-27  4:22   ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-27  4:51     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-27  5:25       ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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