From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
youling 257 <youling257@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: is possible allow GRUB to mount ext4/f2fs filesystems that have the casefold feature?
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:22:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eac0db0a-3ec6-bd35-7002-48664155fbed@ionic.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOzgRdY=ekTgPTczSh=q80GLC36wfsRxbXekovd2R3m-1zruXQ@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 612 bytes --]
* On 12/27/21 6:36 AM, youling 257 wrote:
> now, linux kernel ext4/f2fs filesystem can support casefold. i used this commond
> to format ext4 filesystem.
>
> mkfs.ext4 -F -O 64bit -L '' -E encoding=utf8 '/dev/block/nvme1n1p1'
>
> but grub can't found vmlinuz and initrd.img on casefold ext4 filesystem.
Since casefolding is an INCOMPAT feature (c.f.,
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/fs/ext4/ext4.h#L2034 ), and grub
does not implement that feature, grub will not be able to read such a file system.
Feel free to implement the feature, patches welcome and the like.
Mihai
[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 840 bytes --]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-27 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-27 5:36 is possible allow GRUB to mount ext4/f2fs filesystems that have the casefold feature? youling 257
2021-12-27 7:22 ` Mihai Moldovan [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=eac0db0a-3ec6-bd35-7002-48664155fbed@ionic.de \
--to=ionic@ionic.de \
--cc=grub-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=youling257@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.