[Fedora-marketing-list] xfsprogs prior to 2.8.10 have a really serious bug

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:35 -0400, Alex Maier wrote:
> Here is one more info at fp.o request that went to Famsco--it should be
> the last one.
> 
> Thanks for helping us pick up the slack guys!
> a
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>
> Date: Sep 17, 2006 9:23 AM
> Subject: [Famsco-list] xfsprogs prior to 2.8.10 have a really serious bug
> To: gdk at fedoraproject.org, info at fedoraproject.org, brads at redhat.com
> 
> 
> I know that Fedora officially doesn't support anything but ext3 but
> you still put xfsprogs package with fedora and there is a really big
> problem with it.
> 
> xfsprogs prior to 2.8.10 have a really serious bug which leads to xfs
> partition errors and xfs_repair can't repair the errorous partition.
> 
> xfs partition crashes, gives read and write errors and running
> xfs_repair doesn't repair it.
> 
> The bug is described in here:
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=631
> 
> You need to put an updated xfsprogs 2.8.10 or newer package for fedora
> core 5, and all other.
> 
> Can you please tell me where to get an updated xfsprogs package for
> fedora core 5?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Additional info:
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=631
> http://tinyurl.com/h4o9h
> http://tinyurl.com/fhs29

This is BZ #205020.  I'm cc'ing Jeff Garzik (the maintainer) and Jeremy
in the hopes that one of them (in his copious spare time) :-)  can
answer whether if and when this will get a fix.  I'm guessing it won't
in FC6 until post-release, given that it's not a release blocker and the
freeze is on.  Maybe an FC5 bugfix to tide the reporter(s) over until a
post-final FC6 update?

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