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| author | Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> | 2023-03-03 09:32:39 -0600 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2023-04-07 07:51:14 +0000 |
| commit | 5b91eb58673d43e27523877816169b14e1ab6dfc (patch) | |
| tree | 5fa9499c1a512f11fe358fdb4d66ae20062ace6d | |
| parent | c5ca7edc382e9bfbdf5dd36ba9ebe02d23af8e58 (diff) | |
| download | vmdb2-5b91eb58673d43e27523877816169b14e1ab6dfc.tar.gz | |
When initializing an ext4 filesystem, omit the large_dir and metadata_csum_seed flags (issue #69)
| -rw-r--r-- | vmdb/plugins/mkfs_plugin.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vmdb/plugins/mkfs_plugin.py b/vmdb/plugins/mkfs_plugin.py index 7bb32b6..f0bef3b 100644 --- a/vmdb/plugins/mkfs_plugin.py +++ b/vmdb/plugins/mkfs_plugin.py @@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ class MkfsStepRunner(vmdb.StepRunnerInterface): cmd.append("-L") cmd.append(label) + # Ext4 filesystem features large_dir and metadata_csum_seed + # are known to make versions of GRUB older than 2.06-8 unable + # to boot. Keep this around at least until it is no longer + # likely enough(?) users will try to build older target + # systems. + if fstype == "ext4": + cmd.append("-O") + cmd.append("^large_dir") + cmd.append("-O") + cmd.append("^metadata_csum_seed") + options = values["options"] or None if options: for opt in options.split(" "): |