Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Add the mount option 'discard' for ext4 filesystems so, during partitioning, TRIM can be activated for SSDs in the installed system. I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim

Bug#654317: Needs creation of /usr/share/man/man1

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: Emdebian doesn't include manpages and some packages (and some udebs apparently) don't expect this directory to not exist. I'd be very surprised if any udebs know anything at all about /usr/share/man. However, there are numerous postinsts, starting with bash, that run

Processed: reassign 663484 to choose-mirror

2012-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 663484 choose-mirror Bug #663484 [debian-installer] debian-installer: a broken testing link on the server prevents installation Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'choose-mirror'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: In addition to that, it would also be nice if the -E discard option is passed to mkfs.ext4, so that it TRIMs the entire disk partition prior to creating the file system structures. -E discard is the default, according to mkfs.ext4(8) -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Floris Bos / Maxnet
On 03/12/2012 07:51 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: In addition to that, it would also be nice if the -E discard option is passed to mkfs.ext4, so that it TRIMs the entire disk partition prior to creating the file system structures. -E discard is the default, according to

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Floris Bos / Maxnet
On 03/12/2012 07:58 AM, Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: On 03/12/2012 07:51 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: In addition to that, it would also be nice if the -E discard option is passed to mkfs.ext4, so that it TRIMs the entire disk partition prior to creating the file system

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, On 12-03-2012 04:55, Joey Hess wrote: I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim would be automatically enabled for them. Is it not going to play out that way? Just adds the mount option to partman.

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 12.03.2012 08:57, Harald Dunkel wrote: Package: os-prober Version: 1.49 os-prober finds some MSDOS partition on my laptop: [os-prober says /dev/sda2 is MSDOS, while parted and blkid identifies it as ext4] I understand that, due to the fact that other utils correctly identifies this

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: On 12-03-2012 04:55, Joey Hess wrote: I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim would be automatically enabled for them. Is it not going to play out that way? Just adds the

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Floris Bos / Maxnet wrote: Hmm, and to make things more complicated. The RELEASE-NOTES that come with the e2fsprogs source say that the default is what you put in mke2fs.conf That's for an older version. int discard = 1;/* attempt to discard device before fs creation */

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Tokarev wrote: So a more naive approach at determining the filesystem type is to check first 512 bytes, and if MS-DOS signature is found there, report that it is MS-DOS. This is, apparently, what os-prober is currently doing. os-prober does not look at fragile magic numbers in

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Mon 12 Mar 2012 11:14:07 -0400, a écrit : The particular OS string we see here comes from: # MS-DOS if [ -z $found ] item_in_dir -q dos $2 [ -d $2/$(item_in_dir dos $2) ]; then long=MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1 short=MS-DOS found=true fi

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:14:07AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: These checks don't try to avoid false positives like a /dos or /windows, because the code earlier checks that the mounted filesystem is one of ntfs, vfat, or msdos. To which list was semi-recently added fuse, and I suspect that might

Bug#663600: grub-mount regressions in os-prober

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Package: os-prober Version: 1.49 Severity: normal A while ago, os-prober was made to try to mount filesystems with grub-mount. This means that $type cannot be used to test the filesystem type. Various commits have been made since to let through $type=fuse|fuseblk in various tests. But, I've

Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Samuel Thibault wrote: Mmm, why not looking for io.sys at the root? In all the versions of DOS that I know there has to be one for the partition to be bootable. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO.SYS , some of the DOS clones did not use io.sys, which may be why I don't remember it

Bug#663600: Bug#663540: finds MSDOS when there is none

2012-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: How about, if grub-mount is used, we use grub-probe to find out which GRUB filesystem driver is in use, and stash that somewhere so that individual tests can get at it? That ought to be just as reliable as the existing OS filesystem type checks. Yes please. I've CCed the

Re: TRIM support for ext4

2012-03-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:04:52AM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Hi all, Add the mount option 'discard' for ext4 filesystems so, during partitioning, TRIM can be activated for SSDs in the installed system. I enabled that on ext4 on my SSD, and had two lockups in 24 hours. No lockups since

Re: Proposal to get Wheezy Alpha1 done

2012-03-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 14:55 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'd like to propose following timeline for alpha1 of installer: Thanks for this. * until 03/14 get all translation-only changed udebs uploaded * until 03/14 get pending fixes commited uploaded * on 03/17 try to get the

Bug#537535: marked as done (other missing utilities for debconf replacement)

2012-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:47:19 + with message-id e1s7bdd-0004lx...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#537535: fixed in cdebconf 0.159 has caused the Debian Bug report #537535, regarding other missing utilities for debconf replacement to be marked as done. This means that you

Processing of cdebconf_0.159_amd64.changes

2012-03-12 Thread Debian FTP Masters
cdebconf_0.159_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: cdebconf_0.159.dsc cdebconf_0.159.tar.gz cdebconf-priority_0.159_all.udeb cdebconf_0.159_amd64.deb cdebconf-gtk_0.159_amd64.deb libdebconfclient0_0.159_amd64.deb

cdebconf_0.159_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2012-03-12 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: cdebconf-gtk-udeb_0.159_amd64.udeb to main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-gtk-udeb_0.159_amd64.udeb cdebconf-gtk_0.159_amd64.deb to main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-gtk_0.159_amd64.deb cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.159_amd64.udeb to main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.159_amd64.udeb

cdebconf override disparity

2012-03-12 Thread Debian FTP Masters
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): cdebconf-gtk_0.159_amd64.deb: package says priority is extra, override says optional. Please note that a list of new sections were recently added to the archive: cli-mono, database,

Re: Proposal to get Wheezy Alpha1 done

2012-03-12 Thread Regis Boudin
Hi Adam, On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 19:47 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 14:55 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'd like to propose following timeline for alpha1 of installer: Thanks for this. * until 03/14 get all translation-only changed udebs uploaded *

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-03-12 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * FAILED BUILD: amd64 Mar 12 21:25 debian-cd@pettersson 1sidamd64 http://cdbuilder.debian.org/cdimage-log/1sidamd64 * FAILED BUILD: amd64 Mar 12 21:25 debian-cd@pettersson 2sidamd64