Re: Cant mount xfs lvm. Experimental Features?

[Marko Weber|8000 <weber@zbfmail.de>]

dave,

Am 2015-08-26 01:33, schrieb Dave Chinner:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 01:10:41AM +0200, Marko Weber|8000 wrote:
>> dave, so the latest lts kernel 3.14.51 does not support to mount
>> lvm2 partitions formatted with mkfs.xfs 3.2.4?
> 
> As we've always done in the past, we've waited for around a year
> after upstream kernel support for a feature has been supported
> before turning on the feature by default in xfsprogs. Kernel 3.16
> was released just over a year ago with full CRC support. Our hand
> was kinda forced by distros independently enabling these features by
> default before upstream enabled them, so we enabled it a bt sooner
> than previous feature default changes.
> 
> Clearly we (upstream) have no control over what distros ship and
> enable. We can't stop distros from upgrading userspace out of step
> with the kernel they ship, nor can we stop them from changing
> default feature enablement. However, it's up to the distro to make
> sure that the userspace package and the default configurations they
> ship work correctly with the kernel they ship.
> 
> i.e. if Gentoo are shipping xfsprogs 3.2.4 w/ kernel 3.14.51, then
> Gentoo has a quality control problem - they have failed to verify
> that the packages they are shipping work correctly before shipping
> them to users...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

just want to report that with vanilla-kernel 3.18.19 all is fine again.

marko

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