On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Chris Knadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Niraj kumar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just wanted to know if anybody is working on supporting ext4 or >> are there any patches already? > > Last I had heard, ext4 was supposed to be backwardly compatible with ext3, > at least in _most_ respects (even if boot loader support is not one of them).
Well...I guess that's true if you are not using extents. Once you start using extents (by using -o extents option in mount), the disk layout of filesystem becomes incompatible. > If you've verified that booting to ext4 directly does not work, then > obviously the next backup option is to use a /boot partition using another > filesystem that grub2 does support, at least until grub2 has ext4 support. Oh ...yeah. I have solved my personal problem by using another filesystem for /boot. But, I wouldn't mind getting my hands dirty with grub2 code and try to add ext4 support, unless somebody else is already working on it. -Niraj _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
