linux-ext4 - Re: metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot

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Message-ID: <20121007181025.GA30198@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:10:25 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	tm@....ma, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot

I just had a random thought.  Which bootloader are you using?  Is it
grub, or grub2 per chance?

I wonder if it's grub modifying the file system and touching the
superblock, and not knowing about the new metadata checksum feature....

	    	    	    	      	  - Ted
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