On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:08:45PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 5/14/18 12:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Darrick J. Wong >> >> <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> >> >> Is there a reason why this was made default before GRUB was fixed? Or >> >> would XFS devs prefer to not support /boot on XFS? >> > >> > Coordination would have been good, but nobody thought about this issue. >> > It was a mistake, not a preference. >> > >> >> Can someone point to documentation for the change to include in a >> report for GRUB devs? >> >> I found this: >> https://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg36686.html >> >> But all the documentation here seems stale: >> http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Papers_and_Documentation >> http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure/tmp/en-US/html/index.html > > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/xfs/docs/xfs_filesystem_structure.pdf > > We're working on moving all that to Documentation/, time permitting. OK thanks. I've emailed grub-devel about the issue. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
