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Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: pygrub missing ext4 support.

To: David Markey <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: pygrub missing ext4 support.
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:07:14 +0300
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 05:00:57PM +0100, David Markey wrote:
>    XCP pygrub should have ext4 support.
>    It currently doesn't because the libfsimage ext2fs-lib module is linked
>    against libext2fs, which doesnt have ext4 support in XCP.
>    Instead, XCP should use the ext2fs module that comes with libfsimage,
>    which has ext4 support.
>    Most new releases of distributions has it as their default filesystem.
>    Most notably, Ubuntu 10.04
>

Also Fedora 12, Fedora 13, upcoming Debian 6.0 ("Squeeze") and RHEL6.

-- Pasi

>    An easy way for the build to use ext2fs instead of ext2fs-lib, is to not
>    have ext2fs/ext2fs.h present.
>    Alternatively this patch hard codes it.
>    (From 4.0)
>    --- a/tools/libfsimage/Makefile         2010-06-19 16:52:04.231221516
>    +0100
>    +++ b/tools/libfsimage/Makefile         2010-06-19 16:52:08.803250922
>    +0100
>    @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
>     XEN_ROOT = ../..
>     include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
> 
>    -SUBDIRS-y = common ufs reiserfs iso9660 fat zfs
>    -SUBDIRS-y += $(shell env CC="$(CC)" ./check-libext2fs)
>    +SUBDIRS-y = common ufs reiserfs iso9660 fat zfs ext2fs
> 
>     .PHONY: all clean install
>     all clean install: %: subdirs-%

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