On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [added linux-ext4 to CC list] > > On Nov 4, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Andreas, >> I had been working on getting some VMs together to experiment with a >> few different Richacl configurations and it looks like the e2fsprogs >> git hub repo with richacl enhanced ext4 utilities may need to be >> updated or have an incompatibility with current kernels (See e2fsprogs >> github link at http://www.bestbits.at/richacl/ ). XFS worked ok. >> >> Fedora 24 Workstation, created two extra disks >> /dev/sdb for xfs >> /dev/sdc for ext4 >> >> Built and installed Andreas's 4.9.0-rc1 based kernel richacl branch >> and the other repos (xfsprogs, richacl etc.). Had no problem >> formatting and using /dev/sdb1 as xfs, but once I installed e2fsprogs >> from Andreas's tree I couldn't boot the system (removed e2fsprogs and >> the ext4 partition and booted fine). With Andreas's e2fsprogs I >> couldn't boot 4.9.0-rc1 > > What version of e2fsprogs is (the other) Andreas' tree based on? The > newer e2fsprogs-1.43 has support for metadata checksums, but this should > be off by default in the released version. The testing version had it > enabled by default. The richacl patches were based on v1.42.12+. They only define a new "richacl" feature flag, so I don't think they are to blame for the failure Steve is seeing. I've still rebased the patches onto v1.43.3+ now. Steve, I assume that /dev/sdc is not the root filesystem or listed in /etc/fstab; if so, then the device will have no influence on booting. Does the richacl kernel use an initrd? If so, then please check for mkinitrd errors: I've seen versions of mkinitrd (dracut) that use a blkid option that isn't part of e2fsprogs v1.42. Not sure if v1.43 has this fixed or if this is a distro specific problem. Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
