Bug#603517: print warning for using reiserfs without notail

Harald Dunkel harri at afaics.de
Fri Apr 22 16:29:36 UTC 2011


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On 04/21/11 15:31, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> You mean if you install the boot loader itself into a partition
> containing such a filesystem?  grub-setup already emits fairly noisy
> warnings when you install to a partition containing a filesystem, which
> are intended to cover pretty much this kind of thing.  If people are
> ignoring the existing warnings, it's not clear to me how adding more
> warnings would help.
> 

Looking at grub2 1.99~rc1 it seems there is no warning/error message
about installing or upgrading it on a reiserfs partition mounted without
notail. Other warnings or error messages are out of scope here.

IMHO grub's preinst should display an error message and stop, since
the missing notail might result in an unbootable system.


Regards

Harri
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