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

The *non-e2fsprogs* implementation, i.e. tools/libfsimage/ext2fs/fsys_ext2fs.c has ext4 support already.


On 21 June 2010 12:29, Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/21/2010 01:26 PM, David Markey wrote:
Well, which ever way we do it, either using the built in libfsimage ext4 support, or upgrading e2fsprogs, we should choose one?



Well, when using libfsimage *non-e2fsprogs* implementation the ext4 support have to be added manually but when using e2fsprogs implementation (i.e. the version linked with e2fsprogs) I recommend upgrading your version of e2fsprogs to the newest/upstream version.

Michal

On 21 June 2010 10:59, Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   On 06/19/2010 06:07 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

       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


   Well, this is not the Xen issue here. We're having this fixed in
   RHEL-5 by simply reinstalling the e2fsprogs package to the latest
   one, although in case of RHEL-5 it's been renamed to e4fsprogs.
   The simplest thing you can do about this is to reinstall the
   e2fsprogs package on the host machine and it will be working fine
   - at least it was when I did test it on RHEL-5 some time ago.

   Simply put, reinstalling the e2fsprogs to the latest version will
   do the job and allow ext4 functionality to pygrub.

   Michal



              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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