Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:22 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:

> I don't think this is necessary.  First, let's take for granted that our code
> is in every situation smart enough not to crash when a filesystem isn't
> readable (this should always be the case, since we might occasionaly be asked
> to read corrupt filesystems).

Good point.

> If a flag means "access to the filesystem isn't deterministic, and grub-probe
> might be able to do things that real GRUB won't", then we're in a situation in
> which we'd like grub-probe to be conservative _but_ real GRUB to be
> best-effort.  I think this means an internal switch to tell fs probes whether
> to be conservative or not.  We could even use #ifdef GRUB_UTIL so the flag
> checking stuff doesn't make real GRUB fatter.

Another good point.  We should not let users install GRUB on a
filesystem that may eventually become inaccessible.

Still, we probably want grub-fstest and grub-emu to be best effort to be
able to debug compatibility problems.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin