[arch-dev-public] current e2fsprogs incompatible with grub

[Dan McGee]

On Feb 9, 2008 3:30 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Xavier schrieb:
> > That's funny, my first feeling when I read about that issue was :
> > Why the hell did those developers put such stupid limitation? :)
> > (or: did not remove)
> >
> > Well, my first result on google looks interesting :
> > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20080130.140155.866d3ad1.en.html
> >
> > There is a patch attached, and the following information :
> >>
> >> Even though I understand that grub(-legacy) is in feature freeze (grub2
> >> does already support booting from ext3 partitions with 256 byte
> >> inodes), I
> >> personally would prefer an update to grub 0.97, given that this issue
> >> leaves the (newly installed/ moved) system unbootable without any chance
> >> for manual interaction (grub neither installs and dies without any
> >> message)
> >> and that the patch seems to be of reasonable size, while grub2 doesn't
> >> seem
> >> to be ready for mass deployment.
>
> 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.

-Dan