From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com ([209.85.161.49]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Pf78B-0005cj-0Z for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:41:35 +0000 Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so6921164fxm.36 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:41:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Confusion over mkfs.ubifs versions From: Artem Bityutskiy To: David Lambert In-Reply-To: <4D2B79BF.6080304@lambsys.com> References: <4D2B79BF.6080304@lambsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:41:24 +0200 Message-ID: <1295340084.2470.72.camel@koala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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)