Re: grub 1.96 svn 20080813 and circular lvm2 metadata

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote on 20080924:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58:01AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> >> Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Hans Lambermont:
> >>> The new patch was sent to the list 2 weeks ago.
> >>> (See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-09/msg00210.html )
> >>> Is there anything else that is needed ?
> >> For me personally it looks fine, but it would be good if Marco has a
> >> look over it and unfornatunately he doestn't have much free time now.
> > So let's put him in CC.
> 
> My email address I put in the changelog proposal will stop working soon, so
> here's a new one that'll last longer :
> 
> This is intended for the Changelog :
> 
> 2008-09-09  Hans Lambermont  <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org>
> 
>        * disk/lvm.c (grub_lvm_scan_device): Allocate buffer space for the
>        circular metadata worst case scenario. If the metadata is circular
>        then copy the wrap in place.
>        * include/grub/lvm.h: Add GRUB_LVM_MDA_HEADER_SIZE, from the LVM2
>        project lib/format_text/layout.h
>        Circular metadata bug found and patch debugged by
>        Jan Derk Gerlings  <jan.derk.gerlings@newtec.eu>
> 
> The address of Jan Derk will stop working too, I'll send an new one as
> soon as I have it.

Hi,

I checked this in, but ommitted Jan's address, since it will stop working as
you said.

Thanks!

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