From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756794AbZBRTTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:19:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755969AbZBRTSm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:18:42 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36027 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755636AbZBRTSk (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:18:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Ubuntu Jaunty ext3 --> ext4 upgrade issue From: Peter Zijlstra To: tim.gardner@canonical.com Cc: tytso@mit.edu, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <499C4F1E.8050901@canonical.com> References: <499C4F1E.8050901@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:18:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1234984717.4785.0.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.25.91 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:10 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > Ted, > > I've encountered a situation where the patches that you've proposed for > stable updates might be causing some issues. This user ivoks appears to > have an upgrade issue. I assume he's enabled ext4 on an existing ext3 > file system. Hopefully I can get more details. Have you seen anything > like this? > > After looking at your for-stable branch, I think I'm missing a couple of > jbd2 patches. Could they be significant? > > rtg > > i'm getting 'Invalid or unsupported executable format' from grub > on all jaunty's generic kernels since (including) 2.6.28-7 Does your grub have ext4 support? Otherwise I would suggest not converting /boot (or whatever other partition is used to load the kernel from).