Once upon a time, Robert Scheck <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 know > > about. > > > > It is for these reasons that I don't think you should use this package > > and I intend to retire it unless anyone says otherwise. > > Last time I used it (a year ago?) it worked properly for ext3 and ext4, but > on RHEL rather on Fedora. Not sure which features you are talking about in > detail, but bumping zerofree from 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 would add 64 bit block no. > support at least... Also note that zerofree does something different than fstrim; fstrim only works on block devices that support discard, while zerofree will work on any type of device. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
