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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-11 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ 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]
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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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