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GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the boot-grub-joke-goes-here dept.

kthreadd writes "GNU GRUB has been updated to version 1.99. Among the many improvements are support for two new filesystems, BtrFS and ZFS. For Linux users this means that it's now possible to move to BtrFS entirely and not use it only for non-bootable volumes."

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  1. Re:Does this matter? by zsitvaij · · Score: 5, Informative

    To obtain all of the ext4 performance, tweaks, and reliability benefits, you MUST perform an ext4 format.

    That's not entirely correct. With two commands, you get a full conversion from ext3 to ext4 without a reformat, leaving your data in place:
    tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/DEV
    e2fsck -fDC0 /dev/DEV

    (On an unmounted filesystem, obviously. Source. )