On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> wrote: > Morgan Wesström, mused, then expounded: >> >> >> > I answered that initially. Grub does not support ext3 or ext4. >> > >> >> # mount | grep boot >> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) >> >> GRUB working fine with ext3 here... >> /Morgan >> > > For now. Grub supports ext2. It may or may not work properly > with journaled file systems, depending upon phase of the moon, > current tide level, etc. > > Grub 2.0 is supposed to have much more solid support. But it's not > ready yet. > > So why actively try to break it, when it's known that it's not solid > with journaled file systems and isn't going to be fixed? Ext4 is > new, grub only needs a small partition - 128 MB or less. And it's > only for booting the system. Why is there a need for all the overhead > of a journaled file system for grub?
Added feature in .29 is support for journalless ext4 partitions, makes it far more interesting as a boot partition. Wil
