Dan McGee schrieb:
I checked the patch into CVS. If it is okay, I can rebuild grub with this patch and check it into testing. Opinions?
This personally seems like the better fix to the issue, rather than blame the e2fsprogs developers for changing a default that has been supported by kernel filesystem drivers since 2.6.10.
If we can get sufficient testing on this thing, I'd say go for it and revert any changing or patching you did to e2fsprogs, as grub being in a feature freeze is not their fault. To me that is like some out-of-tree driver telling Linus "No, you can't release a new kernel yet! We aren't ready!". That would really fly.
Adding the patch to grub is a good thing, however: Default inode size of 256 will result in: - Incompatibility to older distributions - Incompatibility to live CDs - Incompatibility to grub versions not coming from Arch - Incompatibility to filesystem drivers for other operating systems I won't have this list of incompatibilities _by default_. If someone feels he/she needs the bigger inodes, he/she can simply edit mke2fs.conf, or use the -I option of mke2fs.