[bug #18836] ext3 filesystems with large inodes cannot be accessed by grub2 or grub legacy

[Joshua Rodman]

URL:
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                 Summary: ext3 filesystems with large inodes cannot be
accessed by  grub2 or grub legacy
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: jrodman
            Submitted on: Saturday 01/20/07 at 14:14
                Category: Filesystem
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.95 & 0.97
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

mke2fs -i 32763 -I 256 -j /dev/ice

grub cannot make sense of this filesystem, although it works fine.

I have only tried to reproduce locally, so it could be a local tools problem,
or heck a bug in e2fsprogs, but I suspect grub does not handle the significant
change of the disk structure brought about by the inode size change.

Tested with grub 1.95 and 0.97.

dumpe2fs attached.




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