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If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! ** Tags added: kernel-spammed-mantic-linux-raspi-v2 verification-needed-mantic-linux-raspi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054809 Title: linux: please move erofs.ko (CONFIG_EROFS for EROFS support) from linux-modules-extra to linux-modules Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Jammy: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Mantic: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Noble: Fix Released Bug description: SRU Justification [Impact] The erofs.ko module (CONFIG_EROFS) is currently shipped in linux- modules-extra. This makes it hard to pull in via the linux-virtual package, it can only come from the linux-generic one that also pulls in the firmware and everything else needed for baremetal, and that serves no purpose in a qemu VM. This stops VMs using these kernels from using the erofs filesystem. Erofs is a modern alternative to squashfs that supports more features such as ACLs. The following LPC presentation has more details on erofs and its advantages over squashfs: https://youtu.be/jt-hp_LtSBc. A user launching a VM using the linux-virtual kernel image is not able to mount erofs filesystems due to the lack of this kconfig. We make extensive use of erofs in systemd's upstream CI, which is running on Github Actions, which uses Jammy, so it would be great to have this backported. [Fix] Please consider moving this module to linux-modules. These are already enabled in the 'main' kernel config, and in other distros. In Debian/Archlinux/Fedora it is a (core) module that is built by default. To verify this works, it is sufficient to create an erofs filesystem with mkfs.erofs and verify that it can be mounted: $ mkdir sources $ echo abcde > sources/file $ mkfs.erofs erofs sources $ mount erofs mnt --mkdir $ ls mnt file Without this module installed and loaded, the mount will fail. Once enabled, it will succeed. [Test] 1. pull built linux-modules packages for architectures with do_extras_package set to true; 2. extract the deb and check if erofs kernel module file exists: $ dpkg-deb -R linux-modules-*.deb . $ find . -name erofs.ko\* [Regression Potential] Moving a module from a less-common to a more-common package should not have any negative side effects. The main effect will be a little more disk space used by the more common package, whether the module is in use or not. There will also be more functionality available in the default installation, which means a slightly increased surface and possibility of new bugs in case it gets used. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2054809/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
