OK, will do it. Maybe enterprise world looks forward to more steady, so very conservative. Rong 2018-03-07 16:49 GMT+08:00 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>: > On Wed 07-03-18 00:08:46, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:01:40AM +0800, rong zhao wrote: >> > >> > I downloaded the latest e2fsprogs source code from kernel.org, it works. >> >> I'm not sure what the difference is, but I'm *shocked* that RHEL 7.4 >> is still using e2fsprogs 1.42.x. There are a very large number of >> resize2fs bugs, especially with very large file systems, with >> e2fsprogs 1.42.x. Especially in the case of off-line resizes with a >> lage ext4 file system, with a resize2fs from e2fsprogs 1.42.x, data >> corruption is almost a certainty. > > Yeah, welcome to the world of enterprise distributions :-|. Even in SLES 12 > SP3 (our current latest "enterprise offering") we have e2fsprogs 1.42.11 as > well. And the reason is that at the time we were looking what e2fsprogs to > put there (which was about two years back), 1.43 was still "WIP" and so I > had some doubts whether we can ship it in a distro supported for another 10 > years. So we have 1.42.11 and only backport fixes based on customers' bug > reports. > > Luckily we are somewhat flexible at least on service pack releases so now > that e2fsprogs is having more regular releases (big thanks for that!), I > actually take your comment as a good reminder to talk to our PMs about > pushing 1.43.x to SLE12 SP4 :). > > Honza > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR
