Bug#603517: print warning for using reiserfs without notail

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 22.04.2011 18:29, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 04/21/11 15:31, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > You mean if you install the boot loader itself into a partition
> > containing such a filesystem?  grub-setup already emits fairly noisy
> > warnings when you install to a partition containing a filesystem, which
> > are intended to cover pretty much this kind of thing.  If people are
> > ignoring the existing warnings, it's not clear to me how adding more
> > warnings would help.
>
>
> Looking at grub2 1.99~rc1 it seems there is no warning/error message
> about installing or upgrading it on a reiserfs partition mounted without
> notail. Other warnings or error messages are out of scope here.
>
> IMHO grub's preinst should display an error message and stop, since
> the missing notail might result in an unbootable system.
>
GRUB2 shouldn't have any problem with a reiserfs without notail, except
when installed in blocklist mode, where there are enough warnings
already and if tails are encountered for core.img, the installation
simply fails.
>
> Regards
>
> Harri

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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