I'll try to get core dev's attention this week; it'd require a Feature
Freeze Exception (FFE) now to get v1.44.0 into 18.04 but as an LTS it
would be better to have it from the start - and decide on the default
installer/mkfs flags now rather than have users suffer later.
>From that we could
It should be noted that I recently released e2fsprogs 1.44.0 (currently
in Debian Unstable, should hopefully hit Debian Testing in three more
days) which turns on Metadata Checksums for everyone.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fsprogs
Pulling in 1.44.0 into 18.04 LTS would be nice since it
Canonical please read Theodore Tso's Comment #4 above, and consider for
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS!
This "64bit,metadata_csum" creates compatibility-issues even with 16.04
LTS, and does not seem to provide a huge benefit [>16TB fs support,
slightly stronger metadata checksumming].
This creates all sorts
An issue for 18.04 too, reported in IRC.
There is a related bug "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not
support ext4 metadata checksumming"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874
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I have got a problem because of the non-matching features, too: I
formatted a new drive with ext4 under Ubuntu 16.10 and added it to the
fstab of my precise and trusty installations.
These two LTS installations stop during the boot press giving me an
error because e2fsck does not recognize the
One bit of context --- metadata_csum is not enabled by default in the
official upstream e2fsprogs.tar.gz file. So with my upstream maintainer
hat, I deliberately decided not to enable it by default, and mentioned
in the release notes that individual distributions should decide whether
they wanted
I don't see how turning on a new feature is a bug.
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Status: New => Invalid
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Ubuntu 16.10
There is a linked bug 1365874 about adding 'metadata_csum' to e2fsk in
LTS versions.
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Title:
Ubuntu 16.10 installer sets metadata_csum option on