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 supports two new features, largedir and ea_inode, (neither turned on by default yet, but the second in particular is very useful for Samba servers since it was written specifically to efficiently support Windows ACL's and Security ID's better than any other file system by supporting xattr dedupe.) http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.44.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1601997 Title: Ubuntu 16.10 installer sets metadata_csum option on ext4 partition which is incompatible with other LTS Ubuntu versions Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu 16.10 installer sets metadata_csum option on ext4 partition which is incompatible with other LTS Ubuntu versions (12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS). Steps to reproduce: 1. Download Ubuntu 16.10 installation media. 2. Install Ubuntu. 3. Try to do fsck -fy /dev/sdX1 from other supported Ubuntu distro. Expected results: User can check and fix errors on ext4 filesystem, created on Ubuntu 16.10. Actual results: User can not check and fix errors on ext4 filesystem because of lack of 'metadata_csum' option in previous LTS Ubuntu versions. The only one working solution was to scan from 16.10 live install media. Note: it is known, that Dan Watkins disabled metadata_csum when creating ext4 filesystems ( see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~daniel-thewatkins/maas-images/fix-yakkety-builds/revision/305 ). It is good solution. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: e2fsprogs 1.43.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-30.49-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-30-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Jul 11 23:42:49 2016 SourcePackage: e2fsprogs UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1601997/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
