Bug#462461: support for ext4

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:46:47AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 
> What I didn't get is:
> 
>  - partition layout
> 
>    If /boot is on ext4, it's expected that it fail since grub2 isn't
>    suppose to have ext4 support/testing yet however if it isn't, the
>    grub2 isn't really involved since the kernel itself handles it
>    later.

/boot is ext3.  The problem was that update-grub (via grub-probe) mistakenly
detects /usr (ext4) as readable.

I think I fixed that (see my last mail, asking him to test this on CVS).

>  - why tag it critical?

I fixed that.

>    ext4 is still a development filesystem with changing data format on
>    disk and I doubt someone will be willing to work on grub2 support
>    while it's in this state;

Uhm you may be right on this.  Anyway, it doesn't hurt to discuss it in
upstream (if someone feels like doing the work to support for dev versions
of ext4, why not?).

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