Bug 845311
| Summary: | mkfs.ext3 should be able to set ext_attr feature | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Eryu Guan <eguan> |
| Component: | e2fsprogs | Assignee: | Eric Sandeen <esandeen> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Eryu Guan <eguan> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.9 | CC: | sct |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-02 17:05:26 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I don't see that this is a bug, it's just changed behavior. Is there any reason to address this in RHEL5? I don't see one, but if I'm missing something please re-open. |
Description of problem: (I'm not sure if it's really a bug) mkfs.ext3 couldn't set ext_attr feature flag at mkfs time, but mkfs.ext4 could [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# mkfs -t ext3 -O ext_attr /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Invalid filesystem option set: ext_attr [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# mkfs -t ext4 -O ext_attr /dev/sdb1 >/dev/null 2>&1 [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# echo $? 0 On the other hand, kernel will set ext_attr flag when writing to ext3 fs [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 >/dev/null 2>&1 # Feature list has no ext_attr right after mkfs.ext3 [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Filesystem features" dumpe2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ext3 [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# touch /mnt/ext3/testfile [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# umount /dev/sdb1 # ext_attr is in feature list after touch testfile [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Filesystem features" dumpe2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file [root@ibm-x3550m3-06 mount]# Seems we need the following patch commit 0d1de232a81354a89fdcd1df77531dec07685e2f Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso> Date: Sun Jan 27 19:38:46 2008 -0500 Create filesystems with the ext_attr feature by default Since recent kernels have a tendency to set this feature willy-nilly, let's just enable by default. It's only very old kernels that don't support it any more. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): e2fsprogs-1.39-34.el5_8.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description 2. 3. Actual results: mkfs -t ext3 -O ext_attr /dev/sdb1 fails Expected results: mkfs -t ext3 -O ext_attr /dev/sdb1 succeeds Additional info: