Subject: Re: [bug#70912] [PATCH] gnu: e2fsprogs: Downgrade to 1.46.6.

From: Zheng Junjie <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 22:24:26 +0800

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1.47.0 would, by default, create an ext4 filesystem which was not
> readable by our current version of grub.  This should also address a
> number of the system test failures.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (e2fsprogs): Downgrade to 1.46.6.
>
> Change-Id: Ifa6841185ab85d24479f981afc1b42a349716d80
> ---
>  gnu/packages/linux.scm | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> index 2e0c05b4f7..76c69701b8 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> @@ -2548,10 +2548,12 @@ (define-public usbip-utils
>  module.")
>      (license license:gpl2)))
>  
> +;; XXX: Before updating to 1.47+ check if grub supports the ext4 flag
> +;; metadata_csum_seed, otherwise grub will complain about an unknown filesystem.
>  (define-public e2fsprogs
>    (package
>      (name "e2fsprogs")
> -    (version "1.47.0")
> +    (version "1.46.6")
>      (source (origin
>               (method url-fetch)
>               (uri (string-append
> @@ -2560,7 +2562,7 @@ (define-public e2fsprogs
>                     "e2fsprogs-" version ".tar.xz"))
>               (sha256
>                (base32
> -               "1nymjw801lmlr5y6bg1zv9jsip5dkyxqislbdzpir4mx5czzajhl"))))
> +               "1z7lqkvrw97jym2w2gz1aj3d9maxhrk6alv3vrzfkr7mkzqifxd7"))))
>      (build-system gnu-build-system)
>      (inputs (list `(,util-linux "lib")))
>      (native-inputs (list pkg-config
>
> base-commit: 56980ea500a1db3c8586972b8abfaf5c4e24f82d
hello, this downgrade make my visionfive2 boot fail,

#+begin_src bash

/dev/mmcblk1p3 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!

Guix_image: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********

File system check on /dev/mmcblk1p3 failed

#+end_src
i think maybe we should use 1.47.0 and disable metadata_csum_seed by
default, like debian and gentoo?

see https://sources.debian.org/data/main/e/e2fsprogs/1.47.0-2/debian/patches/disable-metadata_csum_seed-and-orphan_file-by-default
and https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=747be80bc0594b776e233912ce517b38d5726891