From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Duccs-00079K-CZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:54:10 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuccY-0006s4-F1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:53:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuccJ-0006mj-Hl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:53:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuccI-0006hk-4Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:53:34 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DucdJ-0007mH-AO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:54:37 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CFA8BF4 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:45:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11145-03 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:52:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2B58B48 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:45:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC84C045 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:45:14 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200507182240.09558.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:45:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200507182240.09558.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:40:09 +0200") Message-ID: <87k6jnonbr.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: more info on bugs 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: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:53:54 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > This is mainly to Marco. I'm looking at the "Known Bugs" on the wiki, and I > would like to know more info on some bugs: > > * JFS support does not work on big filesystems. > > Is this about the partition size or the block size? To reproduce this, how big > size do I have to use? It was reported to me, but I was not able to reproduce this yet. If I can get a bigger harddisk I will try to fix this bug. > * Large files do not work on ext2, this can be tested with loopback and a > hd image. > > How large? A few 100MBs. > * Some filesystems have regressions, only ext2 has been tested a lot... > > I do not understand this. Is this a bug? Yes, but not a specific one. For example there were some bugs in some misc.c functions which are used by the filesystems. They relied on broken behavior so there might be some bugs in the other (non-ext2) filesystems. I should do some extensive testing. -- Marco