Bug#681820: e2fsprogs: Problems in German translation

2012-07-16 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:02:42PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: By chance I saw a slight error in the German output e2fsprogs programms. I grabed the latest de.po and startet reviewing it; unfortunately it is quite huge and I only managed to to about 1/3 up to now. I found various

Bug#677624: multiarch-support should be priority: required

2012-06-15 Thread Ted Ts'o
Package: multiarch-support Version: 2.13-33 Forwarding per Russ's observation that multiple required library packages are depending on multiarch-support, which causes Lintian to complain. Given that it is a transitional package, this shouldn't be a big deal, since it's less than 200k installed

Bug#674453: e2fsck(8): Unnecessary escape of tabs in the manual

2012-05-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 674453 +pending thanks Patch applied, thanks. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#674694: resize2fs(8): Unnecessary escape before a tab in the manual

2012-05-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 674694 +pending thanks Patch applied, except that 1 k and 2 k blocksize looks horrible; I much prefer 1k and 2k blocksize. So I reverted that part of the patch. It may be the preferred style for SI units, but these are the same jokers who suggest the use of ridiculous terms like tibibytes

Bug#670100: e2fsprogs: Please don't use blocksize of 1024 in usage-type 'small'

2012-04-23 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:22:52PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: Finally, the only file system where someone is likely to be creating that is this small in this day and age is the /boot filesystem --- and there, even if the drive using 512-byte emulation, performance isn't an issue since no

Bug#670100: e2fsprogs: Please don't use blocksize of 1024 in usage-type 'small'

2012-04-23 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:51:28PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: USB sticks and other flash media are optimised for FAT (using big blocks). Most of my information comes from LWN article Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ I don't know if linear reads during

Bug#670100: e2fsprogs: Please don't use blocksize of 1024 in usage-type 'small'

2012-04-22 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 01:17:34AM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.2-2 Severity: normal I noticed that mke2fs has a default blocksize of 1024 bytes when it uses filesystem type 'small' (3-512MB) from mke2fs.conf. It's a bad thing for performance (more so now

Bug#669730: e2fsprogs: Bigalloc is not documented

2012-04-21 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi Touko, Note that bigalloc is still somewhat under development; there are number of bugs that are still in the kernel code, so at this point I can't really recommend non-developers use it in production yet... (Some of the bugs weren't evident at the time of the 1.42 release, or I would have

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-02 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:34:39AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: My main motivation is that for years uses see checking messages at boot. On a dentist's bill at least checking is separate from treating. So somehow the user should be more informed about what is going on. Else he

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:39:35AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.8.gz X-debbugs-cc: ty...@mit.edu The man page should say by 'check' we mean that nothing will be altered on the disk except updating

Bug#666725: secure passwords more predictable than expected

2012-04-01 Thread Ted Ts'o
severity 666725 normal thanks On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:50:58PM +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: When using pwgen -s 1 50 to generate 50 one-char passwords, only lowercase letters are used. When using pwgen -s 2 50 to generate 50 two-char passwords, exactly one lowercase letter and one

Bug#666460: define 'check' clearer

2012-04-01 Thread Ted Ts'o
One of the reasons why the fsck page is a little vague is that it's a front end progam which executes a file system specific checker program. These programs are not necessarily consistent in how they operate. The way e2fsck, which is the file system checker used for ext2, ext3, and ext4 (and so

Bug#665885: e2fsprogs: libcomerr2.shlibs should point at e2fsprogs-udeb for udebs

2012-03-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 665885 +pending thanks On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:41:42PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Is this what you are looking for? % more debian/libcomerr2/DEBIAN/shlibs libcom_err 2 libcomerr2 (= 1.33-3) udeb: libcom_err 2 e2fsprogs-udeb (= 1.33-3) Yep, that looks like what I'd expect.

Bug#665427: Fix roff syntax and typo in mke2fs.conf.5 and tune2fs.8

2012-03-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 665427 +pending thanks On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27:11PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: We noticed some tiny errors in the mke2fs.conf.5 and tune2fs.8 manpages while translating them in French (for the manpages-fr-extra package), please find attach a patch to address these issues.

Bug#665885: e2fsprogs: libcomerr2.shlibs should point at e2fsprogs-udeb for udebs

2012-03-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:53:56PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.1-2 Severity: important Tags: d-i (x-debbugs-cc to debian-boot and the btrfs-tools maintainer) btrfs-tools-udeb's btrfsctl and mkfs.btrfs seem to be linked against libcom_err.so.2, and the

Bug#663237: e2fsprogs: [patch] Make resize2fs shrinking use much less CPU

2012-03-09 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:11:05PM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote: Shrinking a filesystem is currently very CPU intensive. On a 100G ext4 filesystem filled to 50% full by making copies of /usr/share/doc to $MNTPOINT/doc{1,2,3,...}, running resize2fs on a fairly slow (~5400 rpm) disk and a fast Core

Bug#654457: Please enabled hardened build flags

2012-02-20 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: dpkg-buildflags /dev/null Dash, which is (now) the default shell for scripts on Debian, doesn't support that - and it's used by the buildds I think. I guess you have bash as your /bin/sh which accepts that syntax. The

Bug#654457: Please enabled hardened build flags

2012-02-20 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:39:40PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: I don't understand, but it looks like the hardening flags are being passed, but either (a) they are't correct, or (b) they seemingly have no effect. Can you help me

Bug#654457: Please enabled hardened build flags

2012-02-19 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 04:39:38PM +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: Dear Maintainer, It looks like the hardening flags weren't applied in 1.42.1-1. For example: $ hardening-check /sbin/fsck.ext4 /sbin/fsck.ext4: Position Independent Executable: no, normal executable!

Bug#654457: Please enabled hardened build flags

2012-02-15 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 654457 +pending thanks Thanks for sending a proposed patch! I had to slightly modify it so it deals with the case where we are building on an ancient distro that doesn't yet have dpkg-buildflags (since I support building this on systems such as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Debian stable). I've

Bug#654206: [PATCH] ext4: Report max_batch_time option correctly

2012-01-04 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 02:13:02PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Currently the value reported for max_batch_time is really the value of min_batch_time. Reported-by: Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Applied, thanks.

Bug#634401: extundelete: FTBFS: extundelete.cc:963:47: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct opaque_ext2_group_desc'

2012-01-03 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:54:46AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: I just investigated on this FTBFS issue. The problem is that extundelete doesn't compile against e2fslibs-dev versions =1.42. Therefore extundelete was just removed from Debian/testing, so if this bug can't be resolved

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If we want to improve fsck time then the best thing to do would be to consider a different default value for the -i option of mke2fs. This advice is not applicable for ext4, since it will not read unused portions of the

Bug#649689: e2fsprogs: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2011-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:27:48PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: Additionally, the call to msync() is made conditional on HAVE_MSYNC instead of MS_SYNC by a test in configure.in for that function. On GNU/Hurd msync() is only a stub, so with this test a potential run-time error is avoided. Wait

Bug#649689: e2fsprogs: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2011-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:37:53PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Checking for HAVE_MSYNC helps because configure finds the stub and decides it is not usable, see below. Um, how does configure find the stub if you're just doing an AC_CHECK_FUNCS(... msync ...) That just checks if a function

Bug#649689: e2fsprogs: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2011-11-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 649689 +pending -patch thanks On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:44:34AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: The attached patch fixes the FTBFS problems for GNU/Hurd due to the lack of a PATH_MAX definition. Instead of fixed length strings dynamic allocation is used. I fixed this problem a different

Bug#644989: Still not fixed

2011-11-16 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:24:23AM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: Hello, I have just tried the version from Squeeze (1.41.12-4stable1), and it does work properly Yes, that's not surprising. The 1.41 version doesn't try to use the new-style resize2fs ioctl. The fundamental issue is what error

Bug#644989: Still not fixed

2011-11-15 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:29:37AM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: reopen 644989 ! thanks Hello, With e2fsprogs 1.42~WIP-2011-10-16-1 and Linux hoshi 3.1.0-libre-lemote-rm2-mfgpt #2 Fri Nov 11 03:07:23 YEKT 2011 mips64 GNU/Linux Are you using a 32-bit or 64-bit userspace with this

Bug#647039: e2fsprogs: e4defrag does not work with LVM device nodes

2011-11-10 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:16:35AM +0100, Laurent Grawet wrote: Then I would like to know whether chattr +e on files and dirs when coming from ext3 is enough to trigger online defragmentation in order to migrate those files to extent format ? The chattr +e will migrate older files to use the

Bug#647245: e2fsprogs: 2GiB volume can't be formated on 32bit ports.

2011-11-10 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag 647245 +pending thanks On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:23:09AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Samuel Thibault, le Tue 01 Nov 2011 01:16:58 +0100, a écrit : Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-10-16-1 Severity: important Actually that might even warrant a serious severity, as

Bug#644792: e2fsprogs [filefrag]: filefrag gets stuck if -v option not specified

2011-10-09 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 644792 +pending thanks On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:26:20AM -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote: filefrag seems to get stuck (if -v is not specified) repeatedly calling the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl in the do..while loop. I suspect this may have to do with the fix for #631498. It looks like the

Bug#644584: e2fsprogs: fsck.ext4 failed to run at boot time. causing boot failure

2011-10-07 Thread Ted Ts'o
retitle 644425 undefined symbol in /sbin/e2fsck caused by missing dependency priority 644584 important merge 644425 644584 thanks On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 03:28:32PM +0800, Yafan Zhao wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-10-05-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package

Bug#644502: e2fsprogs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 (and kfreebsd-any)

2011-10-06 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 644502 +pending thanks On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 02:37:41PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The patch inlined below fixes the remaining FTBFS problems for GNU/Hurd. It probably fixes the build problems for GNU/kFreeBSD too. The QIF_* stuff is only used for quota_v2 and kfree seems to

Bug#644425: e2fsprogs: undefined symbol in fsck.ext4

2011-10-05 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:59:38PM +0200, Maarten De Munck wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-10-05-1 Severity: important fsck.ext4 fails with error: fsck.ext4: symbol lookup error: fsck.ext4: undefined symbol: set_com_err_gettext. Since this happens on the root fsck at boot,

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-03 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 11:48:44PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Any chance the resize2fs was a 32-bit binary by any chance? yes, indeed. this is a ppc64 kernel and a 32-bit powerpc everything-else. Stupid question. Can you tell me what the sizeof(unsigned long) is on ppc64 and

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-03 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:46:52PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:04:19 -0400, Ted Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: Stupid question. Can you tell me what the sizeof(unsigned long) is on ppc64 and ppc32? I think that might be the problem... 0 abc@tut:~/src/test$ gcc -o

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-03 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:34:57PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Does this bug need to be reassigned to the kernel or is it in e2fsprogs? Do you have a patch you want me to try? (it'd be much easier for me to try a patched e2fsprogs than a patched kernel on remote hardware) Actually

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-02 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 05:00:51PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Performing an on-line resize of /dev/mapper/vg_tut0-usr to 1572864 (4k) blocks. resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38 1 tut:~# let me know if there is more information i can provide. Could you check

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-02 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 10/02/2011 09:41 PM, Theodore Tso wrote: Oh interesting…. I'm not sure whether this is a kernel bug or a resize2fs bug. What version of the kernel are you using? And what architecture? x86_64? i386? This

Bug#546388: e2fsprogs: Odd filesystem labels confuse blkid

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
reassign 546388 util-linux thanks Sigh, one more time, with feeling The blkid library is now the responsibility of the util-linux package. I *think* this issue is already addressed in the revmaped version of blkid found in util-linux, but I'm not 100% sure, so I'm reassigning it to the

Bug#634883: e2fsprogs: Please explain in mke2fs.conf(5) what enabled means

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 634883 +pending thanks On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:23:51PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: The man page explains the various options and several times says if enabled (e.g. for enable_periodic_fsck). From the shipped file I assume that enabled means a numeric 1 and disabled a numeric 0?

Bug#631498: e2fsprogs: filefrag should report adjacent extents as one

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag 631498 +pending thanks On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:02:23PM +0400, Ibragimov Rinat wrote: When filefrag uses FIEMAP ioctl its logic differs for ordinary and verbose (-v) modes. ext4 returns extent on every 32768 block so on large files it is possible that `filefrag large-file' tells

Bug#520985: [nieh...@web.de: typo: e2fsck abgebrochhen]

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi, since you are the last translator for the German e2fsprogs.pot file, I'm forwarding this to you. Note that there will be a new e2fsprogs.pot published soon, for the upcoming e2fsprogs 1.42 release. If you could include this fix in the next de.po update for e2fsprogs, I would greatly

Bug#620659: [glo...@debian.org: e2fsprogs: strange French translation in resize2fs]

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi, since you're the last translator for the French translation file for e2fsprogs.pot, I'm forwarding this to you. Note that there will shortly be a new e2fsprogs.pot file published for the upcoming 1.42 release. If you could consider this bug report and fix translation if appropriate in the

Bug#627535: e2fsprogs: FTBFS with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt nostrip

2011-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 627535 +pending thanks On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 09:23:42PM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-4 Severity: normal e2fsprogs fails to build if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains nostrip Thanks for reporting this. I've fixed it in my sources and it will be in the next

Bug#642193: 'man e2fsck' typo: exacly

2011-09-20 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag 642193 +pending thanks On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:33:38AM -0400, A. Costa wrote: Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/e2fsck.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Thanks for reporting this! I've fixed it in my sources and it will be in the next release. -

Bug#614082: e2fsprogs: fsck.ext4 fails with 'Memory allocation failed' message

2011-09-19 Thread Ted Ts'o
retitle 614082 e2fsck dies with an OOM on bad triple-indirect block in a dir inode thanks On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:09:38PM +0300, George Shuklin wrote: Error storing directory block information (inode=169246423, block=0, num=3966024): Memory allocation failed Apologies for not looking at

Bug#629883: e2fsprogs: FTBFS: parse.c:56:20: error: 'errno' undeclared (first use in this function)

2011-09-19 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag 629883 +pending thanks I recently was able to reproduce this. It looks like some shellutil program used by configure has a 4k line length problem. The problem doesn't show up on Ubuntu 10.04/x86_64, and it doesn't show up in my sid/i386 chroot (which is what I normally upload to the ftp

Bug#632169: Please transition e2fsprogs for multiarch

2011-09-18 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:17:58AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: Please find attached a patch to e2fsprogs to transition it to use of the multiarch library paths as described at http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation. This patch has been applied and is being used successfully in

Bug#632169: Please transition e2fsprogs for multiarch

2011-09-18 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi Steve, On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:17:58AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: Please find attached a patch to e2fsprogs to transition it to use of the multiarch library paths as described at http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation. This patch has been applied and is being used

Bug#641838: FTBFS: struct ext2_group_desc missing some members

2011-09-16 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 05:42:26PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Source: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-09-16-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) e2fsprogs stopped building with the latest upload. Relevant build log excerpt:

Bug#641838: FTBFS: struct ext2_group_desc missing some members

2011-09-16 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 07:47:46PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Not really, I read it “somewhere”, while trying to familiarise myself with buildds, but didn’t bookmark this specially (as it matches what I think is right), see http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2011/09/msg00035.html Is there

Bug#636418: e2fslibs: New version breaks dump (source and binary)

2011-09-15 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 636418 +pending thanks On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:07:29AM +0100, Mark Wooding wrote: Package: e2fslibs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1 Severity: important With this version of e2fslibs, dump 0.4b44-1 is a total loss: it fails with SIGFPE during pass IV. Thanks for reporting this! I

Bug#641667: /lib/libe2p.so.2: [patch] e2fsprogs/libe2p: tune2fs never recognizes MNTOPT_* mount options

2011-09-14 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:07:07AM +0200, Israel G. Lugo wrote: There's an off-by-one bug in lib/e2p/mntopts.c:e2p_string2mntopt(), both in the Debian 1.41.12 version, and the current upstream 1.41.14 version. It's failing to properly recognize any MNTOPT_* options, which means I can't for

Bug#629883: e2fsprogs: FTBFS: parse.c:56:20: error: 'errno' undeclared (first use in this function)

2011-07-04 Thread Ted Ts'o
fixed 629883 e2fsprogs/1.41.12-4stable1 thanks On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on amd64. Relevant part: CC /«BUILDDIR»/e2fsprogs-1.41.12/lib/ss/parse.c

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-06-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
My basic impression is that the use of data=journalled can help reduce the risk (slightly) of serious corruption to some kinds of databases when the application does not provide appropriate syncs or journalling on its own (IE: such as text-based Wiki database files). Yes, although if the

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-06-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:30:11PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: I've found some. So although data=journal users are minority, there are some. That being said I agree with you we should do something about it - either state that we want to fully support data=journal - and then we should

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-06-23 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:32:48PM -0500, Moffett, Kyle D wrote: Ted, since this new iteration has no customer data, passwords, keys, or any other private data, I'm going to try to get approval to release an exact EC2 image of this system for you to test with, including the fake data volume

Bug#628536: Heads up: update for e2fsprogs intended for stable-proposed-updates

2011-06-18 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:38:07AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: To the normal ftp-master queue with stable as its distribution target in the .changes (i.e. the changelog dist bit). But proposed-updates works equally well. OK, uploaded. Please let me know if there were any issues/problems. I

Bug#628536: Heads up: update for e2fsprogs intended for stable-proposed-updates

2011-06-17 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:36:01AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: We cannot use the unstable version verbatim for technical reasons. So I'd like to ask you to add a changelog entry with Upload to proposed-updates. and a version like 1.41.12-4+squeeze1. It needs to be built in a stable chroot

Bug#612522: e2fsprogs: [l10n-fr] : various errors in the translation (typo, etc.)

2011-05-07 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 612522 +pending thanks On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:34:36PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: I've forwarded your suggestions to the maintainer of the French language e2fsprogs.pot at the Translation Project. Thanks!! The maintainer of the French language translation file has updated fr.po per your

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-04-05 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:30:11AM -0500, Moffett, Kyle D wrote: Couple of questions which might give me some clues: (a) was this a natively formatted ext4 file system, or a ext3 file system which was later converted to ext4? All the filesystems were formatted like this using

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-04-04 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:24:28AM -0500, Moffett, Kyle D wrote: Unfortunately it was not a trivial process to install Debian squeeze onto an EC2 instance; it took a couple ugly Perl scripts, a patched Debian-Installer, and several manual post-install-but-before-reboot steps (like fixing up

Bug#615998: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Repeatable kernel BUG at fs/jbd2/commit.c:534 from Postfix on ext4

2011-04-02 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi Kyle, Sorry for not following up sooner. Are you still able to reproduce this failure? If I set up an identical Debian stable instance on EC-2, am I likely to reproduce it myself? Do you have a package list or EC2 base image I can use as a starting point? Thanks,

Bug#615592: e2fsprogs: autodetect stride and stripe-width (and perhaps even block size) on RAID devices

2011-02-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:52:46PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: wishlist AFAIU this is not yet done: It would be nice, if mke2fs could provide an auto-detect mode or something like this for setting sitrde and stripe-with.

Bug#614611: e2fsprogs: ext4_mb_generate_buddy erros on suspend/resume

2011-02-22 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:15:23PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: normal I think I have started seeing this message very recently (maybe with the 2.6.37 kernel). [ 307.168035] EXT4-fs (dm-0): error count: 9 [ 307.168046] EXT4-fs (dm-0):

Bug#613737: e2fsprogs: Programming error? block #33600 claimed for no reason in process_bad_block.

2011-02-16 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: normal I have run a full read-write surface scan on an ext4 partition on an external USB hard drive (e2fsck -ccfy /dev/sdb6), which lasted for about 20 hours. After that, e2fsck

Bug#612522: e2fsprogs: [l10n-fr] : various errors in the translation (typo, etc.)

2011-02-09 Thread Ted Ts'o
forwarded 612522 thanks I've forwarded your suggestions to the maintainer of the French language e2fsprogs.pot at the Translation Project. Thanks!! Thanks for taking the time in making these corrections available. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#599079: /usr/sbin/filefrag: random perfection reported

2010-12-06 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:38:01PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/filefrag Filefrag never reports the same perfection, on top of the value being entirely wrong: # filefrag /mnt/gnome.raw /mnt/gnome.raw: 3569 extents

Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:16:02PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: It means we don't need to keep it in RAM since we're not going to read/modifiy it again in the near future. Thus the writeback can be started right now since delaying it will not save us anything. At least that's the way I

Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:58:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: This is the standard way that ordinary files for which reliability was important have been updated on Unix for decades. fsync is for files which need synchronisation with things external to the computer (or at least, external to

Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:21:44AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: That explanation helps a lot. Thanks, both. (Guillem, I like your patch very much then. Most files being unpacked in a dpkg run aren't going to be read back again soon. Perhaps some other kernels will also interpret it as a

Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
I did some experimenting, and I figured out what was going on. You're right, (c) doesn't quite work, because delayed allocation meant that the writeout didn't take place until the fsync() for each file happened. I didn't see this at first; my apologies. However, this *does* work:

Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6: 1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required 2/ extract all the new files as *.dpkg-new 3/ for all the unpacked files: fsync(foo.dpkg-new) followed by

Bug#583942: e2fsprogs: option -p not properly documented

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:06:55PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: the -p option is not properly documented. Imho, every option deserves a top-level entry in a man page, and all other options seem to have it. I didn't check too

Bug#591083: e2fsck.conf(5) should clarify whether ext4 fs are also controlled by it

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/e2fsck.conf.5.gz This will be fixed in the 1.41.13 version of e2fsck. Thanks for pointing it out. - Ted --

Bug#555456: Update to e2fsck bonehead problem: reproducible case found

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:19:14AM -0800, J.P. Larocque wrote: Hi Ted and Micah, I ran into the problem in e2fsck that prints: WARNING: PROGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK! OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM. inode_link_info[X] is Y, inode.i_links_count is Z.

Bug#604629: Patch to allow cross build with xdeb

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:33:36AM +, Peter Pearse wrote: The patch below enables the package to cross build using xdeb --- +-DEPSTATIC_LIBBLKID = @DEPSTATIC_LIBBLKID@ $(STATIC_LIBUUID) ++# Why add the non static string here? ++# - causes the cross build to fail ++# DEPSTATIC_LIBBLKID =

Bug#598260: e2fsprogs: resize inode not valid

2010-09-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:24:51PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshev wrote: Hi. $ fsck /dev/sdb5 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) fsck.ext3: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... /dev/sdb5: clean, 11/1310720 files, 123484/5242338 blocks $ fsck -f

Bug#598260: e2fsprogs: resize inode not valid

2010-09-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:02:01AM +0300, Krasu wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: important I'm getting Resize inode not valid all the time during boot. It fails to check the root filesystem, which is ext3, and shows a prompt to ebter root password or continue.

Bug#593620: e2fsprogs: e2fsck returns exit code 32 though allow_cancellation = true

2010-09-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:02:18PM +0400, SIO wrote: Yes, looks like you are right. I've done that test, and e2fsck returned 0. Will look into init scripts then Do you have a preference as to whether I reassign bug #59632 to initscripts, or we should close it and you can reopen another bug with

Bug#594004: resize2fs(8) does not clearly specify size units

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 594004 +pending thanks On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:09:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: important resize2fs(8) says: Optionally, the size parameter may be suffixed by one of the following the units designators: 's', 'K', 'M', or 'G',

Bug#594004: resize2fs(8) does not clearly specify size units

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:45:02AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Priority *important*?!? [...] Because of the potential for data loss in case of confusion. Umm, how? If the size specified is bigger than the device size, resize2fs will stop and warn the user.

Bug#587531: e2fsprogs: e2fsck/tune2fs work badly with lvm snapshot of fs with external journal

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag 587531 +pending thanks I've checked the following patch into the e2fsprogs source tree, which will be in 1.41.13. - Ted commit 8718359b4057bf2b998f4ac6125e33f20efe60cb Author: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu Date: Sat Sep 25 21:14:06 2010 -0400

Bug#593620: e2fsprogs: e2fsck returns exit code 32 though allow_cancellation = true

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:11:39PM +0400, SIO wrote: Here is my /etc/e2fsck.conf: [options] allow_cancellation = true Though cancellation is allowed, when I hit ^c during check of my root partition at system boot, it is remounted as read-only. File system is not flagged as

Bug#580236: /sbin/tune2fs: manpage does not mention LABEL=volume_name as device name

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
tag +580236 pending thanks On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:47:06PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: as specifying the device with its label does work too. A short sentence about that could be added too. This will be fixed in the next release of e2fsprogs. Regards,

Bug#594004: resize2fs(8) does not clearly specify size units

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 02:35:14AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: But if you're shrinking, you have to resize the filesystem and then the partition. And the partitioning tool is not so likely to know the size of the filesystem. And what partitioning tool uses marketing gigabytes as opposed to

Bug#583942: e2fsprogs: option -p not properly documented

2010-07-30 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: the -p option is not properly documented. Imho, every option deserves a top-level entry in a man page, and all other options seem to have it. I didn't check too thorougly, though. The -p option to *which* command in e2fsprogs?

Bug#589345: e2fsprogs: Linux 2.6 kernel supports online resizing of ext4

2010-07-19 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 589345 +pending thanks On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:54:49PM +0100, Francis Russell wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: minor The resize2fs manpage says As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only. I

Bug#588726: e2fsprogs: Outdated description: /sbin/fsck has moved to util-linux

2010-07-19 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 588726 +pending thanks On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:36:47PM +0200, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.12-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Here is a trivial patch for this cosmetic change. Thanks for pointing this out. It will be fixed in the next release of