On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:02:50AM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > > Here is the patch I was talking about, one step farther than I had first > envisioned, i.e. not just about ext4 but an (solid?) implementation of > "xenophobia" in the filesystem driver. This code checks the superblock > backwards-incompatible features bitfield against a predefined set of > features that we do support, and refuses to mount the filesystem if > there are any that we don't. In particular, this makes the driver reject > ext4 filesystems with the "extents" option enabled.
I like the idea, but it sounds a bit scary. Is there possibility that GRUB (not grub-probe) refuses to access a filesystem that would otherwise be perfectly usable? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
