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Please update the e2fsprogs version in the next RHEL 6 update to the 1.42 version family. Since the quota feature and bigalloc seem to still be stabilizing they can be disabled.
We don't generally rebase core packages in the middle of a RHEL lifecycle.
Are there particular bugs or features that you are missing? What's the reason for the request?
Thanks,
-Eric
Eric,
I'm specifically looking for 64 bit filesystems, and the improvements in resize2fs and fsck performance. I haven't been able to find any problems in testing a self compiled version up to 64 TB even with intentional device path loss during writes
Thanks Chris -
RHEL6 will not support 64-bit ext4 filesystems. We provide & test XFS at that scale. There was a long, slow trickle of bugfixes in both kernelspace & userspace to fix ext4 filesystems > 16T, and there are no plans to make the engineering effort to get them all into RHEL6.
If you have details on resize2fs and/or fsck fixes that you think are critical, please let me know. If it's performance vs. correctness, we'd need to weigh the risks associated w/ the change.
Thanks,
-Eric