Re: xfsprogs 4.16.0 format change, GRUB error unknown filesystem

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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:15:27AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Downstream bug, Fedora Rawhide being a canary in the coal mine!
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575797
> 
> Comment 8 about the kernel warning related to freeze/thaw is curious
> but ends up being unrelated to this problem.
> 
> The gist is that xfsprogs 4.16.0 formatted volumes aren't recognized
> by either GRUB user space tools, or the GRUB core.img (whether of the
> embedded BIOS variety or the grubx64.efi variety)
> 
> Anyway, open question for XFS devs if this should be fixed in xfsprogs
> or GRUB. I haven't tested this with syslinux to know if it has a
> similar problem.

mkfs.xfs 4.16 enables sparse inodes by default, which is why grub
doesn't recognise the boot fs.  grub needs fixing, or $installer needs
to disable sparse inodes, I think.

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