On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Dmitry Borisyuk wrote:
> Thank you for the detailed explanation,
>
> Indeed, I intentionally created the filesystem with that features removed
> (because something didn't work with the defaults, sadly it was long ago and I
> don't remember the details).
>
> I'm a bit surprised that you have closed the bug. Though my initial
> filesystem was non-standard, it was not broken, right? Then, I suppose,
> resize2fs should not break the system silently. It might
> display some warning, at least...
It didn't break the file system; it's a perfectly valid file system to
ext4 and e2fsprogs.
The fact that grub doesn't support file systems with the meta_bg
feature enabled is unfortunate, but that's a grub bug. It wouldn't be
that hard to support meta_bg, actually; it's a relatively minor change
to the file system format, but grub is GPLv3, and e2fsprogs (because
it has kernel code it in it) is GPL-v2 only, and so grub couldn't just
use libext2fs from e2fsprogs directly. If they did, then aside from
needing to link against a newer version of libext2fs, it would have
Just Worked.
So you can blame the FSF and GPLv3 for this bug, as well. :-)
- Ted
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