Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello Richard, > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. > > I'm happy to take zerofree. I *think* I've pressed the right buttons to give you the project ... There

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-19 Thread Robert Scheck
Hello Richard, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. I'm happy to take zerofree. Regards, Robert pgpCajlfkSZiz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fe

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-19 Thread Ron Yorston
Rich, Thanks for packaging zerofree. It's been great to be able to install my own software without having to build it. Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >zerofree is a package that can take an ext2 (only?) filesystem, work >out what parts of the filesystem are not used, and either zero them or >sparsify

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing f

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-18 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert Scheck said: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing features that it doesn't

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

2018-02-18 Thread Robert Scheck
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing features that it doesn't know > about. > > It is for these reasons that