[Bug 1297012] Re: hyper-v: Manual partitioning formats /boot with ext2 file-system

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Hello Abhishek and Phillip,

I've discussed this with a few other engineers and it is to risky to
push such change this close to release. There are a few things that are
planned / needed to be done with "/boot" and we should target it at
u-series. This is a valid bug report / request, but i'm targeting it at
u-series for now.

We need to increase size of /boot, use ext4 (possible with journal,
extents and huge file options disabled), remove need for /boot at all
when one is using simple LVM volume group only. All of these changes are
straight-forward, but can have impact on existing deployments and these
are not features we'd be comfortable with deploying so late in the
cycle, way past Feature Freeze.

Regards,

Dimitri.

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Title:
  hyper-v: Manual partitioning formats /boot with ext2 file-system

Status in “partman-auto” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “partman-auto” source package in Trusty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “partman-auto” source package in u-series:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,

  It appears that if users manually partition the disk, the /boot
  partition is formatted using the ext2 file-system. This breaks certain
  backup scenarios for Hyper-V. Is it possible to change the default
  format for the /boot partition to ext4?

  Please let us know and see attached image for more details.
  Thanks,
  Abhishek

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