Precise Backports

Please backport btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-3 (main) from quantal

Bug #1016438 reported by Dimitri John Ledkov
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Precise Backports
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Bug Description

Please backport btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-3 (main) from quantal to precise.

Reason for the backport:
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Many features and improvements to fsck tool and others.
Highly recommended to be run, especially with precise's 3.2 kernel.

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave
the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of
testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s quantal -d precise btrfs-tools

* precise:
[ ] Package builds without modification
[ ] btrfs-tools installs cleanly and runs
[ ] btrfs-tools-udeb installs cleanly and runs
[ ] btrfs-tools-dbg installs cleanly and runs

Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of btrfs-tools. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new btrfs-tools. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new btrfs-tools installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

btrfs-tools
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* ceph
  [X] precise (Reverse-Recommends)
* mythbuntu-live
  [X] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* xen-tools
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* libguestfs0
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* apt-btrfs-snapshot
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* mic2
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Recommends)
* ubiquity
  [X] precise (Reverse-Recommends)
* fsarchiver
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* lxc
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* schroot
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* kernel-package
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* linaro-image-tools
  [ ] precise (Reverse-Recommends)

btrfs-tools-udeb
----------------

btrfs-tools-dbg
---------------

comments
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ceph:
      has a lot of performance and stability issues when run on top of
      btrfs. Filed bug 1016435 to remove this.

Mythbuntu:
      Metapackage, not sure why they pull in btrfs-tools. Seems odd

ubiquity:
      will not be build with backports enabled.

Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
Changed in precise-backports:
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Dmitrijs Ledkovs (dmitrij.ledkov)
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Gary M (garym) wrote :

@Dmitrijs, why has this new bug been created, when a task for Precise could be added to bug 894456?

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

The backports team prefer a new bug with all of the testing information in it.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

@garym as Micah Gersten said I have used requestbackport tool which creates this awesome bug template to track progress on getting a back port landed. Although, other things need fixing in btrfs-tools for precise as well.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Dmitrijs, unfortunately, with 0.19+20120328-4ubuntu1 in quantal now having a postrm/postinst, I think I have to ask you to retest the rdepends. I'm assuming the unaligned memory access issue that this upload fixed would have affected precise as well.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Hrm, sorry, not quite correct, the memory alignment issue would require retesting the rdeps, the postinst/postrm would only affect the btrfs-tools binaries themselves.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1016438] Re: Please backport btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-3 (main) from quantal

On 04/07/12 21:18, Micah Gersten wrote:
> Hrm, sorry, not quite correct, the memory alignment issue would require
> retesting the rdeps, the postinst/postrm would only affect the btrfs-
> tools binaries themselves.
>

Yeap, I know and I will.

--
Regards,
Dmitrijs.

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Gary M (garym) wrote :

Thanks Micah & Dmitrijs, can this be ready for the 12.04.1 release?

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Stefan Lasiewski (stefanlasiewski) wrote :

Now that Ubuntu 12.10 is released, would it be possible to backport btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-7ubuntu1 to 12.04 LTS? The current version of btrfs-tools which shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is version 0.19+20100601-3ubuntu3, and is much older then the version of Btrfs included with the Kernel. Because of this version mismatch, I believe that btrfs-tools does not support features which are present in the filesystem. In addition, many changes have been made to btrfs-tools since June 2010 (A fsck tool, for example).

It would be great to have a better version of Btrfs included in a LTS version of Ubuntu)

To users, 'Btrfs' means both the filesystem and the Btrfs tools used to support the filesystem. I fear that users who try Btrfs on this Ubuntu LTS will be disappointed due to the number of problems present with btrfs-tools 0.19+20100601-3ubuntu3, and that will hurt the perception of Btrfs overall.

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Grizzly (sven-witterstein) wrote :

Is it a new bug.. One needs to remember, for the new btrfs features (from yofel's ppa) e2fsprogs neet to understand the +C option (big C = nodatacow for file or folder, small c = compression).

sudo mkdir vbox
sudo chattr +C vbox

Usage: chattr [-RVf] [-+=AacDdeijsSu] [-v Version] Files...

--> Apparently the "nodatacow"-Attribute-setting is not understood by the e2fsprogs in precise :-((

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Oliver R. (oliverr) wrote :

Is there a decision if this package will be packported or not?

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Bug Reporter 11 (bugreporter11) wrote :

What is the best way to update btrfs tools on 12.04? Thanks

Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
Changed in precise-backports:
assignee: Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) → nobody
Dan Streetman (ddstreet)
Changed in precise-backports:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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