Re: error: compression algorithm inherit not supported

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 12.06.2023 02:42, Maurice R Volaski wrote:
> Yes, /dev/vda3 is zfs. I created a new VM identical to this affected one and 
> the grub setup and installed just fine. It's only this specific VM where this 
> error occurs.

That is likely the configuration of your filesystem which sets 
inheritance property for compression. Configure it explicitly.

> On 11.06.2023 07:18, Maurice R Volaski via Support requests for the
> GRand Unified Bootloader wrote:
> > I have similar VMs with differing behavior. On one, both grub-mkconfig and 
> > grub-install work flawlessly and on the other, they both error out with
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> > error: compression algorithm inherit not supported.
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> Are you using zfs?
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> > On the failing VM, the disk layout is
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> > Disk /dev/vda: 55 GiB, 59055800320 bytes, 115343360 sectors
> >
> > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> >
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> >
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> >
> > Disklabel type: gpt
> >
> > Disk identifier: 2B7F2CB1-4DFD-4D7F-AF01-65A16CD1FA67
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> >
> > Device Start End Sectors Size Type
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> > /dev/vda1 48 2047 2000 1000K BIOS boot
> >
> > /dev/vda2 2048 4196351 4194304 2G Linux swap
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> > /dev/vda3 4196352 115343326 111146975 53G Linux filesystem
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> > Ironically, this was recently working, so I don’t know what has changed since 
> > both VMs are essentially identical except for the disk driver (on the system 
> > where grub is working, the disk is identified by /dev/sda)
> >
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> >
> > The version installed is grub-2.06-r6 (Gentoo).
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