From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: grub / ext4 compatibility problem? Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:03:03 +0200 Message-ID: <200906172003.03739.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200906171648.59573.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4A3909BA.5030007@redhat.com> <200906171740.02101.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f212.google.com ([209.85.220.212]:62755 "EHLO mail-fx0-f212.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753212AbZFQR5x (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:57:53 -0400 Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so515998fxm.37 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:57:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906171740.02101.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:40:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:20:26 Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:46:57 Eric Sandeen wrote: > > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I've run into a really peculiar problem today.. > > >> ... > > >> > > >>> This is on Fedora 11 system (I upgraded from Fedora 10 few days ago) with > > >>> all updates and ext3 migrated (per HOWTO on ext4 wiki) to ext4 yesterday. > > >>> > > >>> Is this something worth people's attention or should I just try to run fsck > > >>> manually? > > >> > > >> is /boot ext4? F11's grub doesn't yet understand ext4, as mentioned in > > >> the releasenotes. I hope to remedy that soon but in the F11 devel > > >> cycle, other bugs of the oopsing & corrupting kind were more pressing... > > > > > > I see it now, in my case there is no separate /boot partition.. :) > > > > > > Thanks Eric & sorry for the noise. > > > > No problem, sorry I didn't get grub going before F11 released :) > > Hm, upon looking at the ext4 patch for the grub I think that including it > can't make the situation worse. It is quite compact/clean patch and grub > cannot ever access such fs in write mode (AFAICS from the quick look)? I got a confirmation from Peng Tao (the patch author) that this is indeed a case here. The patch works fine for me so just in case if somebody runs into the same issue I'm posting the current F11/x86 grub package with ext4 support here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/f11/ grub-0.97-50.fc11.ext4.i586.rpm grub-0.97-50.fc11.ext4.src.rpm [ Please note that doing grub-install is needed after installing it. ] Thanks. Bart