grub-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [2.06 RELEASE PATCH v3 0/4] Add XFS bigtime and needsrepair support


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [2.06 RELEASE PATCH v3 0/4] Add XFS bigtime and needsrepair support
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 17:52:59 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

Hi Javier,

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 07:40:03PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This series contains patches to support incompat feature flags that were
> recently added to the XFS filesystem. This is needed because GRUB checks
> if the super block .sb_features_incompat field contains incompat feature
> flags that are not supported, and if that's the case it considers the SB
> invalid and fails to read any data.
>
> Since having a XFS filesystem with the bigtime or needsrepair flag would
> lead to GRUB failing to access it, and due the fact that some distros are
> going to turn them on by default (i.e: in the mkfs.xfs tool) I think that
> these are 2.06 material.
>
> This series is v3 of a collection of patches posted before separately to
> the mailing list. It addresses the issues pointed out by Daniel on v2.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> for all...

Carlos and Javier, thank you for making the patches!

Daniel



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]