Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2009, 12:50 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko:
> > Vladimir said FreeBSD doestn't support multipath.
> Unless I mistyped I said exactly the opposite:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom_fox&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html

Oh sorry.

But then I really don't know what we can do else then my already sent
patch.
As long as we want to have `grub-probe -t drive' to show the right
partition even with BSD ones, we have to map the linux numbers to grub
partitions.
I still think I don't need to bother to write to LKML to fix HDIO_GETGEO
for device-mapper. It's a low level interface, which is also used for
LVM where HDIO_GETGEO just doestn't make any sense.
So I think UUIDs are the only other choice to map linux partition
numberts to GRUB partitions.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer