Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 03 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> >> - e2fsprogs inode size change >> >> >> >> Lastest release[1] changed the default inode size to 256 >> >> bytes. This is not yet on lenny but is already available on sid and >> >> will hit lenny in few days. >> >> >> >> 1. http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.40.5 >> >> >> >> Currently, there's a know problem with GRUB[2] and the safest >> >> solution is to change the current inode size back to 128 bytes using >> >> -I option of mke2fs for Beta1 release and then work on GRUB or GRUB2 >> >> to support it for lenny Beta2 release with 256 bytes again. >> >> >> >> 2. http://bugs.debian.org/463236 >> > >> > What about the option to just apply the recent patch from Stefan >> > Lippers-Hollmann to grub and go with that? I very much disliked the >> > reaction from Robert basically saying that the patch would not even be >> > considered because grub was dead. >> > AFAIK, grub is still very much the major bootloader for x86 and issues >> > such as this definitely should be resolved. >> >> Yes, Robert will handle it for us. > > Great. > > BTW. I guess this change is also going to break stable installs if we use > the Lenny installer for Etch+1/2... > I guess we'll have to hack things so that for Etch installs partitions will > be created with a 128 byte inode size. I'll see what I can do about that.
Yes, we'll need to. It would be interesting if partman could read something like /etc/defaults/e2fsprogs and like so we could provide etch-support udeb with this and any other specific thing we need. What do you think? -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]