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

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Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:46:48 +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 26, 2017, at 4:40 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 08:16:39PM +0200, Felipe A Rodriguez wrote:
>> 
>> Sysllinux chain-loading is not a factor (GRUB 2.00 still fails to
>> boot w/o it).  GRUB 2.02 does resolve the issue.  The command line
>> for 2.02 required a “-p” switch which 2.00 does not.  This probably
>> caused an uncaught and unnoticed failure during installation in my
>> previous testing.
> 
> Again, Debian is using e2fsprogs 1.43.4 and uses ext4 as the default
> file system, and GRUB 2.02 as the default boot system.  No one has
> complained about failures in the instsall process, and I'm pretty sure
> the Debian installer team has done their usual great job in testing
> and QA.  So if there was an issue in the combination of ext4,
> e2fsprogs 1.43.4 and Grub 2.02 in Debian Stretch (the latest Debian
> Stable, version 8.0) they would have found it.
> 
> … snip

> 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...
> 
> 						- Ted

Huh ???  I indicated GRUB 2.00 stopped working with the upgrade to 1.43.4, but GRUB 2.02 works fine.


Felipe
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