OK On further investigation, I have confirmed a lot of key-facts (1 of 2 linked comments).
e2fsprogs 1.44.0-1 backports to xenial with no difficulty whatsoever, passes "make fullcheck" and works in every way I can tell, lots of resizing and checking and use within gparted, etc, all (apparently) behaving... HOWEVER, for an official xenial-backport (and especially xenial-SRU), to minimize possible problems, I would highly recommend making single change of restoring the 'default' mke2fs.conf EXACTLY (byte-for-byte) as that which came with xenial e2fsprogs 1.42.13-1ubuntu1 :- https://www.iremonger.me.uk/noidx/e2fs/mke2fs.conf.xenial This (a) avoids prompting users who've customized their mke2fs.conf about merging-changes, and (b) avoids functional-change for those with automated-deployment-scripts etc. based upon ext4 creation. I presume, a 'xenial-backport' -or- SRU "proposed" update can be started straight-away? xenial-SRU should DEFINITELY be considered for fsck compatibility with bionic-created FS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365874 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
