The XFS now has an incompat feature flag to indicate that a filesystem
needs to be repaired. The Linux kernel refuses to mount the filesystem
that has it set and only the xfs_repair tool is able to clear that flag.
The GRUB doesn't have the concept of mounting filesystems and just
attempts to read the files. But it does some sanity checking before
attempting to read from the filesystem. Among the things which are tested,
is if the super block only has set of incompatible features flags that
are supported by GRUB. If it contains any flags that are not listed as
supported, reading the XFS filesystem fails.
Since the GRUB doesn't attempt to detect if the filesystem is inconsistent
nor replays the journal, the filesystem access is a best effort. For this
reason, ignore if the filesystem needs to be repaired and just print a debug
message. That way, if reading or booting fails later, the user is able to
figure out that the failures can be related to broken XFS filesystem.
Suggested-by: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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