Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks

2008-01-26 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:51:10PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > This is what I've checked in. See the comment about why we can't > > ignore a difference for the extended attribute feature. > > Ok. Unfortunately, that one really hurts on fedora, or any distro which > write

Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks

2008-01-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
Theodore Tso wrote: > This is what I've checked in. See the comment about why we can't > ignore a difference for the extended attribute feature. Ok. Unfortunately, that one really hurts on fedora, or any distro which writes xattrs during install. The installer mkfs's, mounts, installs with seli

Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks

2008-01-26 Thread Theodore Tso
This is what I've checked in. See the comment about why we can't ignore a difference for the extended attribute feature. - Ted commit a8cde73acbf6e0f9c0a3601e4f5fac2b01a27bd2 Author: Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jan 26 23:17:50 2008

Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] UPDATED: ignore "safe" flag differences when fsck compares superblocks

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Sandeen
(updated for thinko: when proper flag *is* set on both primary & backup) Recent e2fsprogs (1.40.3 and higher) fsck compares primary superblock to backups, and if things differ, it forces a full check. However, the kernel has a penchant for updating flags the first time a feature is used - attrib