On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El dom, 29-06-2008 a las 20:11 +0200, Felix Zielcke escribió: >> Hello, >> >> I reported this already on Debian as #488235 >> >> grub-probe -t fs shows ext2 for a filesystem created with e2fsprogs 1.41WIP >> from Debian experimental >> with extent and flex_bg >> I didn't get grub-probe working with the loopback device even though I added >> it to device.map it still complained. >> The attached image is a 10 mb ext4 made with mkfs.ext4 without any special >> options just the extent and flex_bg features enabled by mke2fs.conf >> If I make that on a 100 MB Disk in VMware grub-probe -t fs shows ext2 so I >> think it shouldn't be different on that 10 MB file > > ext4 on-disk format is very similar to ext2, but backwards compatibility > is broken by the extents option (and iIrc, a modification in the inode > format?). Thus, we need to patch our ext2/3 drivers so that they reject > mounting a filesystem with the "extents" feature bit set, as a temporary > solution. Then, we can develop an ext4 driver that understands the new > format.
Hi, I think it's not difficult to add extents support for grub2. Is the feature stable now, how many distro enable it by default ? -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
