Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs version: 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 in Intrepid features a new option '-t' to
select the filesystem
type. This explicit selection is however silently ignored if other options
imply/require a more
"advanced" filesystem, ext2 -> ext3 -> ext4.
To reproduce, for instance:
mkfs.ext3 -t ext3 -O extent fs.img
generates an ext4 image, ignoring both implicit ("mkfs.ext3") and explicit ("-t
ext3") filesystem type ext3.
No indication of ext4 being created is shown in mke2fs output. Current
Intrepid kernels don't support
file system type 'ext4', so any mount attempt of the newly made filesystem will
fail.
At least a warning if not an error should be printed if the requested
filesystem type and the remaining
options are incompatible. ('mke2fs -O extent file.img' should probably
continue to choose the
filesystem type implicitly; of course it would be nice if it printed out the
chosen type.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers intrepid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intr
epid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 ext2 filesystem libraries
ii libblkid1 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 block device id library
ii libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 common error description library
ii libss2 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 command-line interface parsing lib
ii libuuid1 1.41.0-3ubuntu3 universally unique id library
** Affects: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mke2fs creates ext4 ignoring '-t ext3' if ext4 features specified
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276694
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