Re: What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics)

["Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:43:33 -0500
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Although I've checked to make sure that each of these topic branches
> passes "make check" on their own, the combined pu branch is failing
> due to what appears to be unfortunate interactions between js/flex-bg
> and js/uninit.  This *may* be because I botched the merge, which got
> tricky when I merged in js/uninit into the pu branch which already had
> js/flex-bg.  If someone could take a look at the misc/mke2fs.c changes
> in "git show bffaaf74", I'd much appreciate it.

The misc/mke2fs.c changes look sane to me.

> * js/flex-bg (Wed Feb 13 20:47:50 2008 -0600) 1 commit
>  - e2fsprogs: New bitmap and inode table allocation for FLEX_BG v2
> 
> 	I've noticed that this patch is slightly different from what
> 	Jose sent in for the e2fsprogs-interim branch, so I'm a little
> 	concerned about which is the latest, or whether the
> 	differences are intentional.  Jose, if you have time, could
> 	you take a look at commits cb676995 and 8072fe6 and perhaps comment?

There where slight differences in misc/mke2fs.c that required making a
different patch for the e2fsprogs-interim branch.  The patches are
functionally the same.

-JRS