From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: e2fsprogs 1.42-WIP busted on big endian Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:27:59 -0600 Message-ID: <4EB9ACEF.50206@redhat.com> References: <4EB958E5.3080604@redhat.com> <20111108202809.GO24234@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 development To: "Ted Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9035 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752782Ab1KHW2G (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:28:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111108202809.GO24234@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/8/11 2:28 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:29:25AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> This was noted in commit ccc7cf032852dd5c84b227bafb481b1d158e2b5e: >> >> >> commit ccc7cf032852dd5c84b227bafb481b1d158e2b5e >> Author: Theodore Ts'o >> Date: Fri Jul 30 18:41:47 2010 -0400 >> >> libext2fs: fix obvious big-endian bugs introduced by 64-bit changes >> >> These patches fix obvious bone-headed mistakes, so e2fsprogs will now >> build and mostly work on powerpc. The m_meta_bg, u_mke2fs, and >> u_tune2fs tests are still failing, however, so there's still work to do... >> >> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" >> >> but not fixed yet. Just a heads up, when contemplating a 1.42 >> release. I will try to find some time to look into it, but it's not >> a simple regression, something must have gone wrong in the bowls of >> 64-bitness. > > Um, thanks for reminding me! I'll try to schedule time to look at > them later in this week, but if you get a chance ahead of me, let me > know if you make any progress. Sent a patch, [PATCH] libext2: advance group in ext2fs_open2 during swapping - let me know what you think. -Eric