https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195561 --- Comment #29 from Theodore Tso (tytso@xxxxxxx) --- If your firewall is not letting you access git.kernel.org, please complain to your management. There is a mirror of the xfstests-bld git tree on github: https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld However, to access the prebuilt test appliace files, or some of the other git repositories needed by xfstests-bld if you want to do a build from scratch of the test appliance, you will need access to either www.kernel.org or git.kernel.org, so you might as well deal with your firewall configuration issues sooner rather than later. I basically don't trust make_ext4fs at all. There is a reason I have been pushing the android team to use e2fsprogs. We do have an updated e2fsprogs in AOSP, and some of the tools so that make_ext4fs can be replaced by mke2fs plus some helper programs are mostly in AOSP. They are not used by default, but rather the Android team has been cutting devices over one at a time for Android O, instead of whole sale. My personal suspicion is that they very paranoid because they are used to make_ext4fs breaking at random, so they have been doing a slow migration over because they fear similar breakages as they migrate away from make_ext4fs, particular as it relates to building a new system.img file and doing a factory reset from the device. However, if all you need to do is format an ext4 file system on an SD card, and not try to set up a system image or something else complicated where you have to set up SELinux labels, etc., using mke2fs should be just fine. It's what the rest of the Linux ecosystem use, and what we upstream developers use for all of our regression testing and daily personal use. To be clear, we do ****not**** make_ext4fs; that's an Android "special" that was originally developed when certain management/legal types had a pathological fear of the GPLv2, and then it grew all out of control and manageability. Since it was done as a clean room reimplementation, by someone who was not an ext4 expert, and then had extra ext4 features as well as SELinux spliced into it over time, it has caused me no end of headaches over the years.... :-( If so Linaro folks could help accelerate the move away from make_ext4fs, I would be most grateful. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
