Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

Darrick J. Wong
2023-10-27T16:36:11Z

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 06:19:33PM +0200, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:45:05AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >
> > mkfs.xfs in xfsprogs 6.5 turned on both the large extent counts and
> > reverse mapping btree features by default. My guess is that grub hasn't
> > caught up with those changes to the ondisk format yet.
> >
> > Ah, yeah, upstream grub hasn't picked up large extent counts (internally
> > called nrext64) yet.
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/grub-core/fs/xfs.c#n83
>
> Yeap it is due to nrext64, I've submitted a patch to grub (should have
> cc'ed linux-xfs..)
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/20231026095339.31802-1-ailiop@suse.com/

FWIW the patch turning on nrext64 by default was intended for xfsprogs
6.6, but the maintainer decided to merge it early. No complaints here,
but that was a little sooner than I had intended.

--D

> Regards,
> Anthony