Canonical doesn't employ any ext4 engineers, and as far as I know, no Ubuntu developers contribute to ext4 development. So the fact the release notes might get a few things wrong shouldn't be surprising. Canonical simply doesn't have any file system developers on staff, as far as I know.
If you are willing to try out Metadata checksumming, testers who report bugs are always appreciated. The way to get a feature out sooner is to get more people to contribute to those features. If you are ranting about the lack of a feature, I wonder how much more you would rant if the feature was released before it was ready and your data got damanged or lost? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365874 Title: Ubuntu 14.04 does not support ext4 metadata checksumming Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In the Trusty release notes "Metadata checksumming" is listed as one of the tech highlights of kernel 3.13. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#New_features_in_14.04_LTS However, the userland tools do not support this kernel feature. To the best of my knowledge this will be supported in 1.43, and won't be backported to 1.42. IMHO this is very misleading. It's like a car salesperson sold you a sports car with an V8 engine. After you drove it home, you opened the hood and realized only 6 cylinders are working because 2 of the spark plugs were not included, and you have to buy aftermarket ones. <rant>BTW, I've been following the development of e2fsprogs for over a year. 1.43 release has been in limbo for God knows how long :( </rant> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
