From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KD4KQ-000419-48 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD4KO-0003xq-AN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD4KM-0003to-MC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41426 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KD4KM-0003tZ-DY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:54 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:60249) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KD4KM-0003Mf-Ek for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:20:54 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KD4Go-0002Qi-I5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:17:15 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KD4JR-0007XV-Pd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:19:57 +0200 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:19:57 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080629211957.GD24784@thorin> References: <889404A5CBB14C15B464EDBB1AE338A8@fz> <1214765178.6942.2.camel@localhost> <1214769230.6942.11.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1214769230.6942.11.camel@localhost> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:20:56 -0000 On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > Ext4 is as of today in development and unstable; in fact, the FS name in > Linux is "ext4dev", but I _think_ the on-disk format is already frozen > and thus a readonly driver can be written. I'm not saying that we should > delay the implementation of such a driver, just the we first need to > address the potentially fatal problem of an ext4 FS mounted as ext3/2. > No distro enables ext4 by default. Yep. update-grub heavily relies on grub-probe to figure out if a filesystem will be accessible, and therefore whether to enable optional features. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)