Re: xfsprogs-6.5.0 with grub 2.12~rc1-12: unknown filesystem

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 09:16:20PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On recovering from some crazy filesystem corruption, probably related to 
> "thou shalt not resume from this hibernation image" (posts on linux-btrfs 
> mailing list, I can share link if curious), gladly no loss of important 
> data involved, I recreated XFS based /boot with
> 
> xfsprogs-6.5.0 (12 Oct 2023)
> […]
>         mkfs: enable reverse mapping by default (Darrick J. Wong)
>         mkfs: enable large extent counts by default (Darrick J. Wong)
> 
> After that GRUB started being funny on me:
> 
> update-grub => grub-mkconfig and grub-install both told me:
> 
> unknown filesystem
> 
> grub-probe revealed that grub did not like to recognize new XFS based
> /boot filesystem. So /boot is Ext4 now. I don't really care.
> 
> This is with grub 2.12~rc1-12 on Devuan Ceres.
> 
> I read on internet that similar funny stuff happened as Ext4 gained 
> features. Could this be the case here as well?

Yes this is due to enabling the large extent counts (nrext64) feature.

> Is this a known issue? I bet it needs a bug report to the GRUB developers?

See:
https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/20231026095339.31802-1-ailiop@xxxxxxxx/

Regards,
Anthony



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