Re: Sarge fsck problem with RHEL4 ext3 ?

[redpike <redpike@gmail.com>]

On Apr 10, 2005 12:04 PM, Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:56:46PM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote:
> > On Apr 10, 2005 5:15 PM, Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > What so-called *feature* did Redhat add???

I remember reading somewhere that since SELinux is on by default in
RHEL4, it creates extended attributes in every file it creates.  This
causes fsck'ing an ext3 partition to fail because it doesn't recognize
the extended attributes.

> >
> > They added an online resizing utility, see the release notes below...
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/index.html#id3463109
> >
> > could this be the reason?
> 
> I bet that's it.  Thanks.  This is from the frontpage of e2fsprogs site:
> 
> "This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the
> previous releases. In particular if you wish to experiment with the
> on-line resizing feature in the 2.6 kernels you should upgrade to this
> version of e2fsprogs."
> 
> So apparently Redhat backported this to 1.35.  That's one thing I don't
> like about backporting: you can't count on the release number to
> indicate the feature set.