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The sparse inode metadata format became a mkfs.xfs default in xfsprogs-4.16.0, and such filesystems are now rejected by grub as containing an incompatible feature. In essence, this feature allows xfs to allocate inodes into fragmented freespace. (Without this feature, if xfs could not allocate contiguous space for 64 new inodes, inode creation would fail.) In practice, the disk format change is restricted to the inode btree, which as far as I can tell is not used by grub. If all you're doing today is parsing a directory, reading an inode number, and converting that inode number to a disk location, then ignoring this feature should be fine, so I've added it to XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SUPPORTED I did some brief testing of this patch by hacking up the regression tests to completely fragment freespace on the test xfs filesystem, and then write a large-ish number of inodes to consume any existing contiguous 64-inode chunk. This way any files the grub tests add and traverse would be in such a fragmented inode allocation. Tests passed, but I'm not sure how to cleanly integrate that into the test harness. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Tested-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> |
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This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB 2 data and program files. Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information. The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual, accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2. There are a number of important user-visible differences from the first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please see: info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'