Your message dated Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:25:30 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line f2fs-tools: mkfs.f2fs fails with inapropriate error message on small blocks has caused the Debian Bug report #881346, regarding f2fs-tools: mkfs.f2fs fails with inapropriate error message on small blocks to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: f2fs-tools Version: 1.4.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** mkfs fails on 100MB, but works on 1GB. Really sounds like there is a minimal size. Even if my interpretation is wrong, Failed to prepare a super block ... is not an intructive error message. There exist FLASH devices down to 8MB; the DOC2000 was a very famous chip with 32MB. The goal of the day was only to check if my kernel supported F2FS (if I could mount a block); I guess some people may want to use F2FS on old and small devices. # dd if=/dev/zero of=fff bs=1024 count=102400 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.95282 s, 35.5 MB/s # mkfs.f2fs fff F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.4.0 (2014-09-18) Info: sector size = 512 Info: total sectors = 204800 (in 512bytes) Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512 Error: Failed to prepare a super block!!! Error: Could not format the device!!! # dd if=/dev/zero of=fff bs=1024 count=1024000 1024000+0 records in 1024000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 48.8232 s, 21.5 MB/s # mkfs.f2fs fff F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.4.0 (2014-09-18) Info: sector size = 512 Info: total sectors = 2048000 (in 512bytes) Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512 Info: Discarding device Info: format successful *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) Release: 8.0 Codename: jessie Architecture: armv7l Kernel: Linux 4.4.48-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages f2fs-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libuuid1 2.25.2-6 f2fs-tools recommends no packages. f2fs-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- >o_/ DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre (aka DoubleHP) http://benoit.demaine.info/ If computing were an exact science, IT engineers would'nt have work \_o< "So all that's left, Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf." (FAKE TALES OF SAN FRANCISCO, Arctic Monkeys)
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--- Begin Message ---fixed 881346 f2fs-tools/1.7.0-1.1 thanks This problem is fixed in f2fs-tools 1.7.0, which is the version in Debian Stretch (the current stable release) as well as in jessie-backports: % mkfs.f2fs /tmp/fff F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.7.0 (2016-07-28) Info: Debug level = 0 Info: Label = Info: Trim is enabled Info: Segments per section = 1 Info: Sections per zone = 1 Info: sector size = 512 Info: total sectors = 204800 (100 MB) Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512 Info: format version with "Linux version 4.18.0-00043-gfdade4115840 (tytso@cwcc) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-3)) #35 SMP Sun Aug 12 21:33:40 EDT 2018" Info: Discarding device Info: Overprovision ratio = 25.000% Info: Overprovision segments = 22 (GC reserved = 16) Info: format successful I recommend that you use the newer version of f2fs-tools, as f2fs-tools 1.4.0 is so obsolete/out of date that it's highly unlikely that it will get any attention upstream or by the Debian maintainers. Cheers, - Ted
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