[Filesystems-devel] Bug#1025791: fsck.f2fs is unable to check mounted FS

[Michael Tokarev]

10.12.2022 00:30, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
[...]
> The other thing I'll note is that f2fs-tools isn't getting much love
> in Debian at the moment.  The original maintainer/uploader was Vincent
> Cheng, and I joined the Filesystem Group to help out mainly because I
> wnated to get an updated f2fs-tools for kernel testing[1].  I don't
> actually use f2fs except for kernel testing, so I wouldn't want to be
> making changes to f2fs-tools or its support scripts, since I might not
> notice any potential problems.
> 
> [1] https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests
> 
> So if you or other folks would be interested in helping with
> f2fs-tools, especially if you are actually interested in using f2fs as
> a root file system, please consider joining the file system group and
> helping out.  There is new version of f2fs-tools that hasn't been
> packaged yet and I'm not sure when I will have the time....

Hmm.  I'm a bit afraid it will be similar to my experience with samba.
I come across a (data corruption) bug, discovered it's been fixed upstream
a few years ago, tried to push the fix to debian, and ended up becoming a
single maintainer of samba package in debian, and basically repackaging
everything (because the package has been maintained in "rob Beter to pay
Paul" or "random tinkering at the margins" mode for a few years).

I don't mind updating f2fs to current version in debian.  It does not seem
to have this particular issue fixed though.

(I don't remember how to join a group in whatever debian development system
is in use there, - it was alioth before, now it seems to be just the
mailing list part of it).

/mjt