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

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Message-Id: <ECAB3A47-1686-4D31-B26E-6930DFB31B0E@illumenos.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:58:44 +0200
From:   Felipe A Rodriguez <far@...umenos.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
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 Jun 27, 2017, at 3:53 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> 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

No problem.  My thanks to you and all others who contributed to e2fsprogs and GRUB dev.


Felipe


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