Re: [Help-hurd] sparse super option

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:
> 
> Kevin Musick wrote:
> > > I don't remember this being the case before.  Is this
> > > in response to the recent changes in the ext2 file system?  Does the
> latest
> > > Grub version handle the ext2 revisions as well?
> 
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Well, it is in response to e2fsck 1.19. Grub doesn't care at all.
> 
> If you install Red Hat Linux 6.2, you get an ext2 filesystem that Grub will
> not read properly.  Version 6.1 works fine,

I don't know what RH ships. Please supply the relevant individual version
numbers, in this case the version of e2fsprogs.

> but something obviously changed
> between those versions.  Grub reads partial file and directory names, but
> scrambles them with garbage characters.  I'm using Grub 0.5.92, which is
> slightly out of date, so I suppose I should try the newest version.

Yes, you should.

Thanks,
Marcus

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