From: Diego Calleja Subject: GRUB support status? Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:48:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20081018184821.4fea2215@diego-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.24]:32975 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824AbYJRQr6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:47:58 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so371259eyi.37 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: What's the status of GRUB ext4 support? SVN says[1] that GRUB2 -which is a development project with no stable version- has ext4 support, but the only commit I could find[2] only seems to add extent support. Will that be enought? There's also a parallel GSoC project[3] from opensuse that seems to have added[4] ext4 support to Grub (the Grub "legacy" versions which most of the distros are using). Which one is prefered? Or it's better to keep using ext3 on /boot until grub support improves? (PD: I've modified the ext4 HOWTO wiki page adding some information about all this) [1]: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/NEWS?root=grub&view=diff&r1=1794&r2=1795 [2]: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=grub&revision=1699 [3]: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/appinfo.html?csaid=91DC4C762E7EE6D7 [4]: http://code.google.com/p/grub4ext4/