Comments on How To Build xfstools, xfsprogs And xfsdump From Source On Ubuntu

Thanks, I didn't encounter this, but I did add the package to the instructions.

Unfortuantely, I don't have a comprehensive list of the affected versions, only from what I experienced with a relatively large array (18TB) and testing against file archives that were modified after running xfs_fsr.   I was using the packaged versions of xfstools on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 with the same results. 

I'm far from an expert on XFS and simply added this guide to help those who need it.

Could you be more specific about the issue?  Which versions of xfs_fsr are affected and fixed the issue?

Also do you know if the XFS development team understands that this issue is very serious?  I browsed the archive of the XFS mailing list for past several months but I didn't see any discussions on xfs_fsr causing a volume corruption.

I found that I also needed:

apt-get install uuid-dev

There are a number of known bugs with the packaged versions of XFS and the associated tools.  The XFS defragmenter (xfs_fsr) can cause corruption on some volumes.  Just thought I would make the information available to those interested.

Since this tutorial is for an Ubuntu system, and one of Ubuntu's greatest strengths is its package management system, why install software without rolling it into a proper .deb package?

 To do this, simply:

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall

Then, replace all of your "make install" commands above with "checkinstall".  So, a from-source installation would look like this:

# ./configure ; make ; checkinstall

checkinstall provides a wrapper around the "make install" process, asking you a few simple questions, then creating and installing a .deb, which is manageable via apt-get like everything else provided by official Ubuntu packages.

I will update the instructions.  This is why I like this site so much.  Always learning something new.  Thanks!

I couldn't fine what those tools will do and how to use them

Thanks

Why would you want to do this? Is there something bad with the binaries provided by Canonical?

These instructions need to be updated. They do not work when using checkinstall