On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:59:35AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 6/2/11 2:16 AM, Amir G. wrote: > > > OK, after upgrading to newer util-linux and building it from > > git, which also didn't help, I finally found who to blame - me. > > I had an old (noauto) entry in /etc/fstab which claimed that > > /dev/sda5 is ext4. fsck was picking up that entry and insisting > > that /dev/sda5 is ext4 (regardless of what it really is) blkid > > isn't doing that silly thing. > > > > Amir > > So where are we at with all this? > > I don't really mind adding ext4dev to FSTYP case statements, it > -is- something which blkid could, in theory, still return, and > making xfstests cope with that and try to invoke fsck -t ext4dev > doesn't bother me too much. It is sadly an fs type embedded into > a few tools. > > But other than that, I don't think we should be making changes to > upstream projects based on your current development hacks (I don't > mean hack in a bad way, just that running sed across ext4 to > create your custom filesystem for testing should not require > upstream projects to change...) > > So I'm ok with sprinkling "ext4|ext4dev" around if necessary. > Anyone else disagree? Ðf it is ext4 community decides that ext4dev is not deprecated then I don't have any objection. It won't cause me any PEBKAC problems. ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
