Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 28 June 2009 11:48:05 Vahis wrote:
> I was reading here:
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4
>
> "One very important thing to keep in mind is that *there is NOT Ext4
> GRUB support"
>  *And
> "The safe option is to keep your /boot directory in a partition
> formatted with Ext3."
>
> Is this the case with Milestone3?

Already openSUSE 11.1 contains ext4 support, check it with rpm -q --changelog 
grub:
[...]
* Fri Sep 12 2008 aj@xxxxxxx
- Add patch to allow ext4 file system as boot system (fate#305162).

So, this is an extra patch,
Andreas
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