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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] grub no longer being maintained?  drops support for
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () ij ! net>
Date:       2009-06-12 5:15:00
Message-ID: 4A31E454.2000102 () ij ! net
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On 2009/06/11 22:00 (GMT-0700) Linda A. Walsh composed:

> I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792,
...
> Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should
> be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still
> supports high performance file systems like XFS.

Grub 1 does not support XFS and is not maintained. The Grub devs are
wontfixing all Grub 1 bugs. Grub 2 does support XFS and is maintained. The
current devel version of Ubuntu uses Grub 2 by default. The Fedora devs are
currently discussing whether it's time to switch to Grub 2 in its latest
devel version.

Lilo, even though "maintained", is an anachronism with flexibility vastly
inferior to Grub 1, and even more inferior to Grub 2.
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