linux-ext4 - Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4

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Message-ID: <20170623232935.13fa4688@leda>
Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:29:35 +0200
From:   Christian Hesse <list@...rm.de>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@....org>,
        Felipe A Rodriguez <far@...umenos.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> on Fri, 2017/06/23 15:53:
> +grub-devel
> 
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
> > Upgrading from e2fsprogs-1.42.13 to e2fsprogs-1.43.4 causes the boot
> > loader to fail (unknown filesystem error) on the x86_64 VM I use for
> > initial testing.  I traced the problem to changes in the e2fsprogs
> > configuration file which now sets 64 bit flags.  I tried upgrading
> > to GRUB 2.02 but that did not resolve the problem.  Reverting the
> > changes per the patch below fixes the problem.  
> 
> Hmm, my laptop has been using a file system with the 64-bit feature
> enabled for quite some time, and my Debian Stretch system has been
> using Grub 2.02 to boot my system without any difficulties.
> 
> I've done a quick check of the Debian patches and none of them seem to
> modify Grub's ext2/ext4 file system implementation.  So I don't know
> what to tell you.  Are you sure you properly reinstalled grub on the
> boot device after you upgraded to grub 2.02?

Grub should be fine, however syslinux still suffers issues with 64-bit
feature. Possibly you use a chain to load syslinux first, grub second?
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