Is this still the case? Natty is ancient. I thought grub1 had learned how to deal with Linux XFS. (maybe with fsync and then FIEMAP, or the xfs-specific ioctl that xfs_bmap -vpl some_file uses. (output is similar to filefrag -e, but shows you when there's a hole, instead of leaving it up to the user to notice the discontinuity in logical addresses.)
Please confirm that this still happens. I didn't have any trouble when installing 14.10 on an XFS root FS, but I had to install mdadm in the chroot before grub-install worked for me. So probably my filesystem wasn't still dirty when GRUB tried to read it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775507 Title: grub2 in natty fails to read xfs files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/775507/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
