linux-ext4 - GRUB support status?

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Message-ID: <20081018184821.4fea2215@diego-desktop>
Date:	Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:48:21 +0200
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: GRUB support status?

What's the status of GRUB ext4 support? SVN says[1] that GRUB2 -which is
a development project with no stable version- has ext4 support, but the
only commit I could find[2] only seems to add extent support. Will that
be enought?

There's also a parallel GSoC project[3] from opensuse that seems to have
added[4] ext4 support to Grub (the Grub "legacy" versions which most of
the distros are using).

Which one is prefered? Or it's better to keep using ext3 on /boot until
grub support improves? (PD: I've modified the ext4 HOWTO wiki page adding
some information about all this)

[1]: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/NEWS?root=grub&view=diff&r1=1794&r2=1795
[2]: http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=grub&revision=1699
[3]: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/appinfo.html?csaid=91DC4C762E7EE6D7
[4]: http://code.google.com/p/grub4ext4/
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