[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
I'm changing the title as I think we're putting the cart before the horse slightly. Let's get ext4 supported at all, and then later it will be simple to flip the default if it's working well. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned)

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
I'm working on installer support. ** Also affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- support installation on and boot from ext4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2009-01-07 Thread Slug71
I believe we have e2fsprogs v1.41.xx in Jaunty already which should be fine for Jaunty. Grub2 is also working well for me at the moment. So i guess we just need it in Ext4 in the installer now. -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You recei

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2009-01-07 Thread Shirish Agarwal
An update With grub giving us an update https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty- changes/2009-January/002558.html grub (0.97-29ubuntu47) jaunty; urgency=low [ Colin King ] * New patch, ext4_support now allows grub to boot from ext4 partitions. This patch orginated from Quentin Godfro

Re: [Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-12-23 Thread Matteo Croce
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > "mke2fs -S" is __very__ dangerous unless you give it exactly the same > arguments that was used to make the filesystem in the first place (which > probably in this case was something like "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sda1", so > you have to use "mke2

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
"mke2fs -S" is __very__ dangerous unless you give it exactly the same arguments that was used to make the filesystem in the first place (which probably in this case was something like "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sda1", so you have to use "mke2fs -t ext4 -S /dev/sda1" if you want to have any hope of mke2fs

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Matteo Croce
vanilla 2.6.27 debugfs complains about bad superblock. I did: mke2fs -S /dev/sda1 but now my disk is empty -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

Re: [Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-12-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:00:49PM -, Matteo Croce wrote: > I don't want to scare people but i've lost my ext4 partition: > > r...@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext4dev /dev/sda1 /mnt > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, >missing codepage or helper program, or other er

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-12-20 Thread Matteo Croce
I don't want to scare people but i've lost my ext4 partition: r...@ubuntu:~# mount -t ext4dev /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dme

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-24 Thread Tracy
In my opinion it's a good choice, but we need 3 things: 1) grub2 as default bootloader 2) an updated grub-pc package 3) installer support 4) some testing and users feedback, it never hurts -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received th

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Ubuntu probably also needs installer support... -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ub

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
We already ship the ext4 module with our kernel, nothing from Linux needs this ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
Grub would need to support reading from ext4 filesystems -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
e2fsprogs contains all of the ext4 support ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status:

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-06 Thread Matteo Croce
I use ext4 since the 2.6.22 kernel on 3 PCs (one desktop, one laptop and a server). never had a single issue with it other than to install Debian's Grub2 (grub-pc package) to boot it without having to create a separate /boot ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- make

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-04 Thread Felipe Figueiredo
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 293465] Re: make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux

2008-11-03 Thread Shirish Agarwal
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19323277/Dependencies.txt -- make ext4 as the primary filesystem for GNU/Linux https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu