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Re: Release preparation: errata file



Quoting Felix Zielcke (fzielcke@z-51.de):
> Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 18:37 +0200 schrieb Christian Perrier:
> > As part of the preparation of an alpha release (see minutes of
> > yesterday's meeting), I stepped up to work on the errata file.
> > 
> > As usual, I started from the last errata file (the Lenny RC1
> > version...which is indeed the errata file for the Lenny installer).
> > 
> > Please find below the current status of this file.
> > 
> > What do you folks think is worth being mentioned there (probably a lot
> > of things: I feel like we have many failure cases due to the low
> > testing threshold and the fact that many issues are obviously not
> > addressed)?
> > 
> > 
> 
> As I just told on IRC, Theodore Ts'o replied to my mail about mkfs.ext4
> His `master' branch doestn't support 64bit ext4 yet only his `pu'.
> So ext4 > 16 TiB (or 32TiB? not sure, I should have asked) isn't
> supported yet.
> I try to test Colin's patch for GRUB 2 now, so maybe at least that
> supports it before mkfs.ext4 is ready for it.


      <dt>Partitions overs 16IiB not supported by ext4</dt>
      <dd>The ext4 file system creation tools do not support creating file systems over 16TiB in size.
	  </dd>

Would that fit?


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