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 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... Would fstrim or virt-sparsify have worked for you? I feel that supporting something which has been rejected by the e2fsprogs community is difficult, especially when it concerns data integrity. If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
