From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SHYqM-00041k-Bd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:02:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04BB0E0C35; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (mercury.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.61]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0A3E0C13 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:00:40 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,398,1330905600"; d="scan'208";a="860815416" Received: from 213-152-39-89.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.89]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 10 Apr 2012 12:00:38 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (unknown [192.168.1.100]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF8FAC6F4 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:57:13 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4 From: Stroller In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:00:35 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20120408152603.GC3025@solfire> <20120408165623.5fd4fcc6@karnak.local> <201204081734.11781.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20120408164430.GD3025@solfire> <85E2B88F-F6F0-4C3D-A0A8-116B7EA8FA1D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) X-Archives-Salt: 8e8cd936-50cf-4fe3-8f82-b00e293dc795 X-Archives-Hash: c59fe46e1b7e1e39b9ffb6d388373eb8 On 9 April 2012, at 13:04, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: >>> =85=20 >>> This means ext4 mandatory if you want to use it, and this (usually) >>> means GRUB2, which is still considered beta. >>=20 > =85=20 > Interesting. Do you have extents enabled in the filesystem? Mine does: >=20 > # tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep features > Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index > filetype needs_recovery extent sparse_super large_file uninit_bg # df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 228G 5.8G 211G 3% / /dev/root ext4 228G 5.8G 211G 3% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 875M 212K 875M 1% /dev rc-svcdir tmpfs 1.0M 60K 964K 6% /lib64/rc/init.d cgroup_root tmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup shm tmpfs 876M 0 876M 0% /dev/shm # tune2fs -l /dev/root | grep extent Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index = filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file = uninit_bg dir_nlink=20 > I was under the impression that GRUB legacy could not read ext4 > filesystems with extents enabled; that was the primary reason I > migrated to GRUB2. I believe there is a patch for GRUB legacy which > adds ext4+extents support, but I don't think Gentoo applies it. No idea where it comes from, but you can see for yourself now you know = to look. Stroller.