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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:38:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5119106C.2050608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B6CCAB6A-D340-47F8-9231-1280151552DC@colorremedies.com>

On 2/9/13 6:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On 2013-02-07 15:50:07 GMT Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> To be clear, this is only the case when installing the bootloader
>> itself to a partition containing a filesystem, not when installing
>> to the MBR, correct?
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> Which is different than saying "/boot is on ext4" - it's putting
>> the bootloader itself on a partition containing a filesystem,
>> something which is a bit more unusual, I think.
> 
> Some users apparently want distribution specific boot loaders as
> secondary, chain loaded from a primary boot loader that goes in the
> MBR gap.
> 

Understood, just didn't want this to turn into a "grub2 doesn't work
on ext4?!" meme.  :)

Thanks,
-Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-10  0:17 GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX Chris Murphy
2013-02-10  4:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-11 15:38 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-07 10:47 Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 11:44 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 16:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-08 17:17   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-08 17:17   ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 18:42     ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-02-08 18:56       ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-02-08 18:58         ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-02-08 19:11           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-18 15:42       ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-09  6:22     ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-18 17:16       ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-18 21:07         ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19  5:02           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-19  6:24             ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19  8:43               ` Michael Chang
2013-02-19  9:06                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 18:54                 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19  8:47           ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 18:56             ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 19:46               ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19  9:37           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 12:58             ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 15:48               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 17:17                 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19  5:26 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-19 10:54   ` Martin Wilck
2013-05-03  5:01 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-05-03  8:21   ` Martin Wilck
2013-05-03 19:21     ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
2013-02-07 10:18 Martin Wilck
2013-02-07 13:27 ` Jan Kara
2013-02-07 15:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-07 20:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-08 10:15   ` Martin Wilck

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