From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: David Lambert <dave@lambsys.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Confusion over mkfs.ubifs versions
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:41:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295340084.2470.72.camel@koala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2B79BF.6080304@lambsys.com>
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:27 -0600, David Lambert wrote:
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 I noticed that the stock mkfs.ubifs
> (version 1.3) failed to compute checksums correctly. I compiled my own
> version from the git source of mtd-utils which announces itself as
> version 1.4; this worked fine. Being curious I logged onto a machine
> running Ubuntu 10.4 and checked the version of mkfs.ubifs and also found
> it to be 1.3, but this version computes checksums correctly! Is there a
> sub-version of mkfs.ubifs between 1.3 and 1.4 that is not shown by using
> --version? Am I missing something critical here?
Since mtd-utils are not managed very well, and we were not tagging them
regularly enough, I think Ubuntu guys just picked a non-tagged snapshot
which had that bug. Just take newer version please, or ask Ubunto folks
to do this.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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2011-01-10 21:27 Confusion over mkfs.ubifs versions David Lambert
2011-01-11 8:56 ` Jon Povey
2011-01-18 8:41 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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