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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: xfs list <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfsprogs 4.16.0 format change, GRUB error unknown filesystem
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:36:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180514173610.GC4933@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJCQCtQbns7bbE=mWvYuWMi+R5wdphfEjF1F995PVBsoUovnpg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:15:27AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Downstream bug, Fedora Rawhide being a canary in the coal mine!
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575797
> 
> Comment 8 about the kernel warning related to freeze/thaw is curious
> but ends up being unrelated to this problem.
> 
> The gist is that xfsprogs 4.16.0 formatted volumes aren't recognized
> by either GRUB user space tools, or the GRUB core.img (whether of the
> embedded BIOS variety or the grubx64.efi variety)
> 
> Anyway, open question for XFS devs if this should be fixed in xfsprogs
> or GRUB. I haven't tested this with syslinux to know if it has a
> similar problem.

mkfs.xfs 4.16 enables sparse inodes by default, which is why grub
doesn't recognise the boot fs.  grub needs fixing, or $installer needs
to disable sparse inodes, I think.

--D

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-14 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14 17:15 xfsprogs 4.16.0 format change, GRUB error unknown filesystem Chris Murphy
2018-05-14 17:36 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2018-05-14 17:44   ` Chris Murphy
2018-05-14 17:52   ` Chris Murphy
2018-05-14 18:34     ` Eric Sandeen
2018-05-14 19:08       ` Chris Murphy
2018-05-14 19:11         ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-14 19:13           ` Chris Murphy
2018-05-15 12:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-15 13:08             ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-15  7:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-16  6:19       ` Chris Murphy
2018-05-16 14:55         ` Eric Sandeen

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