From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MrCnT-0007Ig-Ug for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrCnS-0007Hy-Gd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrCnN-0007Fr-VE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56564 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrCnN-0007Fi-Mb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:17 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:58474) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrCnN-0004dI-7g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:17 -0400 Received: from [85.180.49.3] (e180049003.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.49.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MgYIJ-1N456r1z1j-00No7I; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:33:14 +0200 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20090925150136.GQ13423@riva.ucam.org> References: <4ABBC1F5.70808@redhat.com> <20090924202146.GA16412@thorin> <20090924223810.GA2638@brong.net> <20090925140951.GA6318@thorin> <20090925150136.GQ13423@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:33:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1253892793.26885.25.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+TTFSAgTk9HUnHq1J606lFrKW6WRQSlp4ulXp LyLvLzM6/UIlrbEqdIVxA4eXrjUfv32Aiai0LbpfHokxuu+O6O BDql4eVRntm5wRW/zwvgg== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH] X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:33:22 -0000 Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Edward - please do continue to develop patches for GRUB 1 (the one that > > > still actually works plenty well enough for lots of people) and ignore the > > > naysayers who are happy to throw out backwards compatibility. > > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, > although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. Whoever wants to do this, needs also solve the problem that st.stat_rdev never matches st.st_dev of the real device. So `grub-probe -t device /' is broken with btrfs. This seems to be wanted: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/3609/focus=3610 But I haven't read the other mails in that thread. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer