From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756900AbZBRTYl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:24:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753545AbZBRTYc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:24:32 -0500 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:1640 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbZBRTYc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:24:32 -0500 Message-ID: <499C6064.7050502@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:20 -0700 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: tytso@mit.edu, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Ubuntu Jaunty ext3 --> ext4 upgrade issue References: <499C4F1E.8050901@canonical.com> <1234984717.4785.0.camel@laptop> In-Reply-To: <1234984717.4785.0.camel@laptop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:10 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: >> Ted, >> >> I've encountered a situation where the patches that you've proposed for >> stable updates might be causing some issues. This user ivoks appears to >> have an upgrade issue. I assume he's enabled ext4 on an existing ext3 >> file system. Hopefully I can get more details. Have you seen anything >> like this? >> >> After looking at your for-stable branch, I think I'm missing a couple of >> jbd2 patches. Could they be significant? >> >> rtg >> >> i'm getting 'Invalid or unsupported executable format' from grub >> on all jaunty's generic kernels since (including) 2.6.28-7 > > Does your grub have ext4 support? Otherwise I would suggest not > converting /boot (or whatever other partition is used to load the kernel > from). > Yep - Colin King implemented support for ext4 in grub 0.97. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com