Re: address@hidden: Bug#866603: grub-common: enabling metadata_csum_seed feature on ext4 renders system unbootable]

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Makes sense. Go ahead with ignoring this flag

Le Fri, Jun 30, 2017 à 2:50 PM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> a écrit :

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:43:02PM +0000, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> пт, 30 июн. 2017 г., 14:38 Colin Watson <address@hidden>:
> > Could we possibly just ignore this feature for GRUB?  For better or
> > worse we don't implement metadata checksumming, and we're only doing
> > read-only access, so I think it would be reasonably safe to ignore
> > metadata_csum_seed since we wouldn't do anything with it anyway.
>
> Is it incompat rather than ro_compat? If so, why?

It's incompat, and I don't know.  Maybe it's incompat but only if you
implement metadata_csum (which would make sense).

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Colin Watson                                       [address@hidden]

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