linux-ext4 - Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4 [RESOLVED]

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Message-ID: <20170627015338.5heipzrsmp4dwsmd@thunk.org>
Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:53:38 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Felipe A Rodriguez <far@...umenos.com>
Cc:     Christian Hesse <list@...rm.de>,
        The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@....org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible regression in e2fsprogs-1.43.4  [RESOLVED]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
> > So when you say that enabling the 64-bit file system feature causes a
> > regression by causing Grub to fail to be able to read the root file
> > system, I have to respectfully disagree.  I do it all the time when I
> > reboot my kernel, and it Works For Me...
> 
> Huh ???  I indicated GRUB 2.00 stopped working with the upgrade to 1.43.4, but GRUB 2.02 works fine.

You originally said:

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.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In your follow up, you didn't bother line wrapping your message, so I
misparsed the sentence where you stated "Grub 2.02 does resolve the
problem" because it was burried in a several hundred character long
line.  My apologies.

					- Ted