Re: [PATCHv5] grub-install: Add backup and restore

2021-05-25 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:59:34AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > From: Dimitri John Ledkov > > Refactor clean_grub_dir to create a backup of all the files, instead > of just irrevocably removing them as the first action. If available, > register atexit handle to restore the backup if errors

Re: [2.06 RELEASE PATCH v3 0/4] Add XFS bigtime and needsrepair support

2021-05-25 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi Javier, On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 07:40:03PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Hello, > > This series contains patches to support incompat feature flags that were > recently added to the XFS filesystem. This is needed because GRUB checks > if the super block .sb_features_incompat field con

Re: GRUB 2.06 release is nearing

2021-05-25 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hey, On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 05:02:42PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi all, > > The GRUB 2.06 release is nearing. I have just pushed all the fixes > targeted to the release. I am waiting for final versions of XFS and > grub-install fixes. If you think we are still missing important fixes, Both f

RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-25 Thread Chris Murphy
Hi, It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS upstream is super skeptical of anything except kernel code making any kind of modification inside the file system region, and I suspect it's the same concer